Facebook is way too spammy for my liking, myspace is definately my weapon of choice. But im a band, not a night. ehm. right. myspace. nice and easy : )
On Feb 12, 2008 7:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? > >
