It's a question for the ages. Something I know I will struggle with days, weeks even years to come. Growing up in a small town in West Virginia I never thought that this sort of question would come into my world and haunt me like the ghost of my Christmas's past. I hope my children never have to ask themselves this question because the answer is too difficult...
Which is better Facebook or Myspace? Because Barb has no original thoughts of her own and can only write on the subject after I have blazed the way. I will take Facebook and Barb can kiss my ass.
Point:
Facebook, first created for college students to chat and meet people from various classes is like the Harvard of social websites, Myspace is basically Cal State East Bay*. First started as a secret society (if you will) because one needed an academic email address to join, no .com or.tv would get a page in the esteemed Facebook only the .edu was your entrance exam. This way the crazies were kept at bay. "OMG, wasn't that test so hard. Mr. Smith sux!" were popular comments on the Facebook "wall". It was a place to vent your frustrations from the day with fellow classmates who understood where you were coming from and could commiserate with you. But the real reason Facebook is better than Myspace... It's not blocked at work.
Counterpoint:
Oh Megan, so simple and so misguided. The very reason what you think makes Myspace inferior is precisely what makes it better! As you stated, Facebook (at least when it started) keeps "the crazies at bay." What good is the Internet if not to talk to/hook up with crazy people?? Myspace offers an outlet for all of us to release our "inner crazies." Rather than just being a forum to complain about lame professors, Myspace is a way for people to truly express themselves. Let out your inner slut! Call someone a douche bag! Add songs to your profile that you would never admit you actually liked! You don't even have to use your real name! Your name can be a lyric from your favorite song (to prove how cool you are) or a line from a poem (to prove how smart you are). Personally, if I am on a social networking site, I want to stay as mysterious as possible. Isn't that the point?
So in summation,
Facebook: LAME!
Myspace: STILL THE SHIZ
Rebuttal:
Wow Barb your rambling incoherence almost passed as a well thought out counterpoint... let's see if I Super Poke you later.
Rebuttal Rebuttal:
Fine, don't Super Poke me. I am sooo posting a bulletin about this.
And there you have it folks! Tune in next week when we take another topic and make it seem important.
xoxo
Meg and Barb
*I ain't here to put down schools or whatever but that is a pretty lame name for a college. Papa Romero did go to Cal State Hayward so I'm not gonna front but once you change the name of a college after the side of the bay I grew up on, well then you lost me my friend.
2 comments:
if laurie walsh has a myspace, then myspace is cooler than facebook.
it's simple logic.
oh yeah, i forgot to add this: If SuperPoke says you get to "teabag" someone, then by god you should be able to teabag them!!!
That is all.
-Barb
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