Myspace and Facebook...

The big two as I like to call em... These two websites are the main websites that people use to stay in contact with old friends make new friends, and also to get to know people that you otherwise wouldn't in your lifetime. Those people being the people that you idolize, worship (yikes!), or are a big fan of. There also other applications that these sites have that offer other things besides keepin in contact with old or new friends. Myspace has a plethora of blogging and bulletin tools, allowing people to see what your currently doing in your life, wether it be new business ventures or jus a simple drunken rant (oh my!) It can be applied to business, but not really to the selling of merchandise. More like an online portfolio if you will. You can arrange your profile page to feature artworks you've done, videos you've created, and folders with pictures of your stuff...thus the idea of an online portfolio.

Also, back to the friend feature of Myspace, I personally have been able to become friends with some of my heroes in graphic design/illustration. The poster artists DWITT ( www.myspace.com/dwitt ) and AmyJo ( www.myspace.com/missamyjo ) are two of my new friends on myspace and it is so great that I can see every once an a while see what they're doin by way of their bulletins, blog, and or just their updates to their profile. That's another thing about myspace that's pretty cool. They have a feature that just alerts you at your homepage when you log in on what your friends have been doin with their profile page. Whether it be a new bulletin, blog, or picture, you'll always be able to know and keep up to date with what thy're doing!

I haven't used Facebook that much, but I did start an account and from the start I realized that they're were some features in it that interested me. The network was a pretty cool feature, right after I had started my account, I was asked on what networks I wanted to be connected with. I thought that was pretty damn awesome because I could network with my hometown, Glasgow, MT, and also network with Minot, ND. And then from there I could also branch more by other states I might know people in. Also, the find friends feature in Facebook was a lot more user friendly than what I was used to in myspace. Usually in myspace the only way I could find someone was through other friends I already had. And then through their friends list find the people I was looking for. At the moment I'm still a big user of Myspace and i'll probably use facebook a little more, now that I've realized it's potential. I do think that Myspace has a larger amount of personalization for what you want your profile to look like, I really haven't seen much on facebook yet. I basically need to check out facebook more and figure out the strengths of both.

Man oh man, I've got a lot of different things goin on for on the web now...Myspace, Facebook, Blogger, Etsy, Paypal *sigh* I thought it was crazy when I first got an email address...

That's all for now...

Rulesome.