Question: Do you like using MySpace?
This should be an interesting question that may affect many of your online activities and interaction with others. Do you like using MySpace to find and interact with others?
MySpace comes with some benefits, and it also comes with some annoying drawbacks. Following are some random pros and cons of using MySpace.
Some good and bad things about using MySpace
Good things:
Yesterday, I added an old friend of mine on MySpace to my MySpace account. We have not talked for almost 7 years for reasons I cannot remember, so I am not sure if she will add me as her friend, or if she will freak out and say “Who the heck is Bes? Gonna block this psycho!@!@!@!@!” That is a benefit of using MySpace. Not the blocking part, but the finding old friends part.
Also, you can keep in touch with friends through different things including MySpace Instant Messaging. You can also become part of the school and university groups, rate your professors too.
Bad things:
One of the flaws of using MySpace is relying on a service that is not reliable and something which does not have that many features. Spam and scamming MySpace messages haunt MySpace users. Many porn and dating services are creating fake profiles to lure unsuspecting and maybe desperate people in. Also, many psychos and stalkers are on MySpace, probably tracking different users for whatever reasons.
On top of that, MySpace is becoming more and more of an advertising network where more focus is being put on bringing ads to the users instead of adding features or building MySpace from scratch on many levels to make it more user friendly. I think Facebook learned a lot from MySpace, which is good for Facebook, and uncertain for MySpace.
What do you think of MySpace? Do you like, or would you like to use MySpace?
Some people do not use MySpace to find new people, but to simply keep in touch with people who already have MySpace, and to keep in touch with people who only want to keep in touch through MySpace. So, do you like using MySpace? Do you have, or plan to use MySpace?
Thank you for reading. 
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( July 28th, 2007 at 10:30 pm )
I really dislike myspace. I find it hard to use because most profiles are so inconsistently and poorly laid out and the way everyone has hundreds of random “friends” that don’t even know them is something I find odd. It isn’t really for my age group I guess, but I don’t understand it.
I did start redesigning a myspace profile but it was more to show it could be done, then actually wanting to use it, and I have sort of abandoned it; although, I suppose I might go back and finish it one day.
I am definitely more of a facebook fan myself. I am addicted to that.
( July 30th, 2007 at 4:48 am )
I like myspace for one reason, which you already mentioned. It’s easy to find people from your past - old friends, classmates, etc.
Besides that one good feature, the site is just horrible. I joined myspace in 2003, after a fun 2-year stint with Livejournal (remember when you needed an invite?) and was disappointed with the site from the beginning. It only got worse from there with all the spammers, annoying features, bugs, and overall sense of being back in high school again.
As far as the layout goes (it’s most obvious flaw), it isn’t just a matter of poor design - the entire site doesn’t work half the time! For a site this popular, it is simply unforgivable.
( July 30th, 2007 at 6:32 pm )
No! Die, MySpace, die!! If all of my friends and family that use MySpace would go to Facebook or Flickr - any combination of those two - I would totally delete my MySpace account…
( July 31st, 2007 at 8:05 am )
I can’t stand MySpace. It is one of the worst things ever created. Why it became popular I will never know. Facebook is much better.
( July 31st, 2007 at 3:18 pm )
Personally I find it quite handy to send out messages to all of your friends, through bullitens, but browsing through profiles annoys the hell out of me. The music starts by itself, some profiles are so badly designed you can’t navigate their page etc
( August 3rd, 2007 at 7:46 am )
i never used MySpace because i think ti´s a worst thing to searche friend with it.
Real friends i can find in real life
( August 4th, 2007 at 12:39 pm )
I haven’t logged into my Myspace account in weeks because I’ve been too busy exploring other social networking sites lol. Myspace is great for finding and keeping in touch with people it used to be great for networking with like minded people but now its over saturated with advertising and spam etc…Its not what it used to be but it still serves a purpose lol
( August 6th, 2007 at 6:14 am )
I use it to promote some of my music, but that’s it. I’m all about Facebook now! :p
( August 6th, 2007 at 11:52 am )
goog for promotion but the rest is very bored on myspace
( August 7th, 2007 at 1:53 am )
[Sorry for the delay in responses everyone.]
I do not use MySpace regularly, but if anyone wishes to add me on MySpace or add me on Facebook, please go ahead and send me a message too on those networks, letting me know who you are so I can add you. Thank you.
Andrew, thanks for the comment. I agree with the poor layout and the inconsistent placement of items on different profiles and pages. A lot of times, the site just does not load and keeps giving issues.
I use Facebook, and I also have a MySpace profile; I have edited my myspace profile to make it a bit easier to read and view. I get friend add request from all sorts of random people, and the “deny” button gets abused everyday by me.
Ashley, thanks for coming and commenting.
That is indeed a very good reason to use MySpace. Yes, I think I remember when LJ and others needed an invite.
MySpace is a very immature version of a social networking platform, in my view. People can customize their profiles, though no one has been told how to be considerate to someone else. For example, the different music songs and videos that load automatically on different MySpace profiles. It is very annoying.
Unless I am forgetting, I have yet to have Facebook give an error to me. MySpace has had a lot of time in the hands of its new multi-billion dollar owner, and the improvements so far have been very scanty. The main focus, or at least the main apparent focus of MySpace team has been to bring advertisors to the MySpace platform. We see ads shown to us in new ways; other than that, the service is still the same.
Valerie, heh. Facebook is also starting to get annoying on some levels, though it is much better than Facebook. I think I keep my MySpace account simply to keep in touch with people who do not want to be contacted through any other channel, and to find old friends too.
We need more competition, and more social networking sites. Maybe Vox and LJ can start getting into the same arena more.
LGR, thanks for commenting. It can indeed feel surprising that MySpace got to where it is. One of the reasons could be because it offered a way for all teenagers to feel cool, and majority of the teenagers wanted to pass on their display of cool-ness onto the web.
Do you use Facebook regularly?
Ash, thanks for the comment. Some bulletins can be very entertaining indeed. Browsing through profiles can indeed be very annoying, specially when many profiles are simply backdoors to porn sites that lure you in with anything you click on.
Do you have a MySpace profile, or do you only have facebook?
clara, thanks for the comment. Heh, that is a nice way to look at it.
What do you think of facebook? Also, what do you think of situations when one loses touch with a friend or two, and may want to see if they are on MySpace?
Marenda, thanks for the comment. What other social sites have you discovered or come across, besides Facebook?
One reason MySpace is still popular is because of the number of people on it. Facebook is slowly becoming more popular; however, MySpace still has way more people, and thus it can sometimes be easier to find someone on MySpace than on Facebook.
swollenpickles, thanks for the comment.
That is nice; what kind of music is it?
Do you think MySpace is better at exposing/advertising something than Facebook? One thing, at this moment, is for sure: MySpace allows an easier way to embed music into the profiles, though that can also cause annoyances as Ash said above.
Diana, thanks for the comment.
If I am reading correctly, in your view, MySpace is good for promotion, like swollenpickles said above you.
What do you think of the corporate and movie ads on MySpace? They get a lot of exposure, but do you like running into them?
Thanks everyone for the comments. I really appreciate it.
( August 9th, 2007 at 4:50 am )
I love Myspace a lot, use it to promote my sites, service and products.
( August 10th, 2007 at 4:26 pm )
Andson, thank you for coming and commenting.
May I ask what kind of services and products you advertise through MySpace? Are they to get clients like web design clients, or something else? In your view, is promotion through MySpace working out for you?
Thanks.
( January 20th, 2008 at 11:58 pm )
Myspace - facebook - Hi5
Hi5 is my favorite.
( February 15th, 2008 at 5:14 pm )
Hi “Celebrities“, thanks for sharing. After Hi5, which one is your favorite? For you, are there more contacts on Hi5 compared to other places? Even though Hi5 is older, I think it has gotten behind times a little bit. However, for me, the main thing is contacts, and I think slowly MySpace and Facebook are becoming the norm for a growing number of people.