mainly directed at UK 313ers I think as the answer may be different elsewhere but until we go global ( ;-) I guess I'm interested on the situation here on home soil:
MySpace vs. Facebook I've been wanting to do a MySpace page for our night for ages as, although we have our own site, it seemed like that was the way many people communicated. I didn't want to start it until I was good and ready as I was afraid I couldn't handle the probable time drain otherwise. In the meantime, in common with many people I've spoken to, I accidentally joined Facebook when I received one of their "such-and-such says you're their friend, just click on this link to confirm it or they'll know you didn't and weep for a year........ooops you just joined Facebook (sinister laugh)" mails. Since then I've been seduced and enjoy being on it, putting photos up, seeing what friends are up to etc (though it takes a good deal of time). But I still thought the right way forward was to have a Facebook page for me and a MySpace page for our night. So recently I joined up under a pseudonym so I could start a group. I then spoke to various friends who I thought were well into it and said "give me some pointers on how best to do this thing". To my surprise I received the reply "oh MySpace is over now, nobody uses it anymore, just do it on Facebook". This is fine for me if true as I've become confident with Facebook (I'll do us a group there anyway as it's a doddle) where I'm scared of MySpace. My impression was MySpace was still used by creative types (for example I thought a band would still have a MySpace rather than Facebook page) but this lot I asked are well into spending time on these things and I know were big on MySpace but now aren't. What do people think?
