it's the new black.

[emmelinemay]

I've been informed that 'no one uses myspace anymore. You should get a facebook'.

Seeing as i'd never even HEARD of Facebook before a fortnight ago, it seems to have come from no where. I got an email about two weeks ago from someone i went to school with, one of those 'hey, everyone in my entire address-book, come and join Facebook' sort of things.

Then another one, from someone from my second secondary school. (long story). And then, LJ is awash with people saying 'hey, i have a Facebook, add me'.

Is it worth it? Apart from being able to poke prince william, is it any fun? Do you have one?

Science demands answers.

Comments

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

It has not come from nowhere, but it used to be for students only, and you had to have a .ac.uk email address to register, and could only see people from your own university (I think). They've opened themselves up to the public when I assume the first students who registered graduated and started wanting to "network" with other people. I registered to have a look and there is no-one from either of my secondary schools on it, not anyone I knew at college, guess I'm too old!

Anywhere LinkedIn.com where it's at these days. Facebook is so April.

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

I'm on LinkedIn and there is only one person on it that I know so far. seems very corporate and cold.

[s0b.livejournal.com]

it is corporate - many of us are on it with different heads on.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_alexandra_/]

Yeah, if I didn't have a facebook account, I'd be pretty ostracized at uni (by accident) because everyone does all their social planning on there. Like non-lj people//people who don't read their a/cs - they just don't always get included on mass-cinema trips texts, meals, birthday party invites etc, because people forget that they don't read it.

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

If it ain't on LJ I don't touch it. If facebook (which I have known about for some time) is anything like Myspace, it will be full of pervs and bands trying to pimp you!

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

I like LJ because its so flexible. I use it to organize things with people I see all the time, keep up with people I don't see very often, notes on interesting things, news commentary, the occasional diary/journal-type entry, etc. It's simple and most of the time it just works. Whereas with Facebook (and LinkedIn, and before them Friendster and Orkut) there was always the question of but what's it for?

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

it's for young people. When my sis and bro (aged 17 and 16-tomorrow respectively) go out and meet new people, they don't exchange phone numbers, they find each other on myspace (or facebook, or bebo, etc). They all elave each other messages and flirt in a way that simply wasn't around when we were teens. I think if i was 16 i'd LOVED it. It's created a whole new way of youth communication that has passed us by, as we are too old now...

When i went out a lot last summer and met loads of people in clubs (cute boys hannah and i dared each other to ask how tall they were, and fun girls we had long in depth conversations with in toilets.) the question always arose 'are you on myspace? i'll add you!' There's loads of people on my myspace i met last summer.

LJ is for people you know, myspace for people you've met :)

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. LJ is a very important tool for keeping up with friends around the country and indeed, the world. I've never found another website that affords this as effectively as LJ.

[elle-is-for.livejournal.com]

aaaaah! we is psychic (see my latest post)

I love facebook - it's my safe place for when I'm not on lj and it's a lot more useable than MySpace. if you want, I'll send you my login and you can have an explore (the facebook 'tour' is a bit lame)

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

s'ok, i'll probably just get one. if it's rubbish, i'll just not use it any more. Hey, hannah_lucas has one, i'll just poke her every morning.

[flywingedmonkey.livejournal.com]

I went on to stay in touch with some people I met in Hong Kong- I have since discvered that both my brothers (one of whom is in Oz), my sister and 5 of my cousins are on there.

JmC
The old black

[a1exxandra.livejournal.com]

I think I need to investigate it further as apparently all my old school friends are on there...they told me myspace was 'soooo last year'
I kind of like the music element to my space, though it's a bit clunky to use.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_alexandra_/]

I use facebook a lot:

I use it to keep in touch with all my uni and old school chums - more as a live database of everyone's contact details, birthdays, photos, than a journal as such. This is good as far as I'm concerned, as they're people I want to be able to swiftly message//send details about pubs, etc, but wouldn't necessarily want to read their rantings, musings, etc on an extended a basis as livejournal (because a lot of them I don't know that well and just don't care about as much as you guys!).

Some people from this scene have joined it since I've had one, but it isn't really that useful for keeping in touch with them since I still prefer livejournal as a medium. Still, ups my friend count, makes me look more popular, etc. Heh.

xx

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

a live database of everyone's contact details, birthdays, photos

That's what we need. And some sort of shared calendar.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Then again LJ could do all that apart from the calendar perfectly well, if everyone made a friends-locked post in their memories with contact details etc on.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_alexandra_/]

Yeah right. Like anyone's organised to do such a thing/keep it updated... But yeah... that'd be useful. Lots of people do have contact details in their profiles (+ birthdays) but clearly are coy about whole world seeing them (fair enough). LJ should have a friends-locked full-profile view, rather than one totally public one. We should petition them!

[poggs.livejournal.com]

Facebook is a grown-up Myspace, and much cleaner and slicker.

[chromenewt.livejournal.com]

I tend to agree. A few friends suddenly contacted me and I've liked what I see so far. Only thing stopping me? My friends are *all* here rather than *some* there.

[bluekieran.livejournal.com]

MySpace is the new Geocities. Facebook is the new Friends Reunited.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

i'm on it, but seeing as the majority of my 'friends' on it are on lj too i'm not entirely sure WHY i'm on it.... i can't find anyone from my schools on it either. rubbish!

[foulbint.livejournal.com]

I got an account about a month ago, but only cos friends kept e mailing me trying to add me, so I did it just to keep them happy!
It seems ok, haven't really used it much though. I think you can put lots of photos on it, so it might be good for you.