Questions about MySpace and Facebook

[msagara]

I'm not entirely a luddite. But. Well. MySpace and Facebook? They make me feel bemused and almost entirely incompetent. But I know there are a bunch of people in my flist that probably don't feel either of these, and I thought I would, you know, badger you for helpful advice.

1.* How does it work? I recently created a MySpace account and then ... kind of clicked in circles because I couldn't really figure out how to do anything, or in fact even figure out what I was supposed to do. My oldest son and my friends mock me mercilessly in Facebook, and because I love them, I want to avoid having to kill them, so I haven't yet created an account there.

2. Have you found it helpful?

ETA: * as in rudimentary step-by-step instructions as if you were speaking to your 5 year old dog. Because I in theory understand that you are suppose to build a friends-list there, but cannot figure out how to do this.

Comments

[msagara.livejournal.com]

i have pages on myspace and facebook. myspace is horrible -- it's buggy and it crashes a lot. facebook, i think, is better for your reader base, as its users are older. i think it is a huge timesink, though. a lot of stupid widgets.

Do you think the MySpace audience is more suited to YA novels and readership?

[lyssabits.livejournal.com]

Well, given the look and prose of many of the users' profiles, I would extremely uncharitably and snarkily declare the MySpace users as barely literate.. except I know that's not true. Sometimes people just don't put the effort into these sites commensurate to their intelligence. At least that's what I try to comfort myself with when forced to visit my various younger cousins' profiles with the sound off and my eyes squinted against the glare.

The one good thing I'll say about MySpace, since I know you're a Firefly fan, is that Nathan Fillion has a MySpace profile and a very, very funny blog he updates from time to time. I'm not a Firefly fan (though I loved all the other Joss Whedon shows) I do sort of like Nathan Fillion now. ;)

[sdn.livejournal.com]

i do. it's more for middle school/high school, whereas myspace is more high school/college.

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I recently heard that the average age on MySpace now is about 30. I haven't looked into it farther, but that really surprised me a lot.

I've been trying to figure out how to use facebook/myspace to promote myself, too, and so far haven't been really successful at figuring out where to get started.