I don’t understand why, but there seems to be a bit of rivalry between people who prefer Facebook with those hotter people who prefer Myspace. 
Personally I’m a myspace kinda girl. I like it, I get to play music on my page, show my personality through my layout, pictures, quotes, etc. Basically, a myspace page is like a paper doll you get to dress up any way you like. While facebook is just plain paper you get to write your name on in the upper left hand corner. Boring.
I also think that myspace is more lesbian friendly. We can search for each other by age, location, height and weight! It’s like a cyber buffet of all you can eat lesbians. Believe me, that search function is pretty nifty, that’s how I found my true blue buddy, Maggie. It’s even how I got to know Remi before we actually met face to face at LB Pride last year. So you see …. myspace helped me make the two most important connections I have with other lesbians.
Facebook however just seems to be this boring page with a few pictures and a dumb wall that your friends can scribble on. I just don’t get it. But I do have one.
Why would I have a boring facebook page after I’ve so clearly insulted the hell out of it? Easy. My myspace page reflects me: my political views, my writing, my love life, my social life, my taste in music and my proclivity to use the word “fuck” a lot. Not so family friendly and when I say family, I don’t mean the big happy gay family we’re all a part of. I mean my extended, very Mormon, conservative family.
While my Mormon family has happily accepted that I’m a lesbian, with open arms and Christmas cards sent in both our names, I am not ready for them to read my blog where I regularly discuss my sex life, drunken nights out in Hollywood and the occasional reference to threesomes. My myspace page has several links to this blog and like I said, I do have a potty mouth.
Up until now, most of my family has been safely hidden away in Palm Desert, 100 miles away from my “worldly lifestyle” I so enjoy. But one of my cousins just moved up here with her two children and police officer husband. Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally stoked to be closer to family. However, somehow …. this also translated to being closer on the internet.
Between her and my sister, I had to join facebook just to keep them away from my myspace page! So now I have a lame, albeit rated “G” for Mormon audiences facebook page, where the raciest thing on it is the fact that I’m a lesbian and one picture of me and Remi.
So in the long run I can see the use in facebook: to keep my life compartmentalized like it should be. Rated “G” family fun in one box. Rated “NC-17” lesbian fun in the other.
Thank you, thank you for crawling into my thoughts and putting them on (blog)paper since I have no time to do so… I appreciate the one brain we share when it comes to many things; Facebook vs Myspace being one.
Have you noticed all the marketing that has gone to Facebook? The links in the corners of commercials steering you to the product page on Facebook? Remember the California petition I emailed you to get marriage equality back on the ballot for 2010? The fine print below it’s request for donations read: “We pledge to put all of the proceeds from this fundraising drive toward one thing: Facebook advertising. By 2010, we believe that nearly everyone who votes in California will be registered on Facebook. Because of the sophisticated targeting capabilities of Facebook, we can reach out to both supporters and undecided voters more effectively than ever.”
Pardon? No I will not be donating, and how idiotic to pigeon hole advertising for such a broad subject as gay marriage equality. I am gay and 29 and a large demographic affected by this petition and I do NOT have a Facebook page nor do I plan to. RETARDS.
Facebook is for grownups. MySpace is great for musicians and……drama.
well i just have most of my friends in facebook than myspace so I don’t vist it as much.Also I had creepy guys mess with me… anyway maybe I’mm give it a second chance…maybe.
This was funny. I use MySpace and Facebook exactly the way you do. MySpace is who I really am – it’s just for me. Facebook is used to communicate with old friends, relatives, and work people – obligatory relationships that I want to keep away from the real me.
For the record I prefer MySpace to Facebook. Maybe it’s because Facebook friends keep sending me stupid quizzes, games, etc, in which I have no desire to participate.