Does anyone have a facebook, myspace or any other type of social networking account? If so what do you have? Do you put a lot of personal information on there? I have facebook, but myspace kind of freaks me out with all of the creeps that have been associated with it. I was curious what everyone uses.
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I’m on myspace, as are many of my friends and aquaintances. I know a few who have facebook and friendster, but I think myspace is the most popular. Any creeps you come across are easily fixed by the ‘delete’ button.
I put no more personal info there than I do here…the internet is a big, big bulletin board that anyone and everyone can see, and I try to never forget that.
I have a Myspace, xanga and facebook, and I have met more creeps over facebook and xanga than Myspace. The best way to avoid the wierdos is by not posting too much information about yourself, and just deleting/ignoring them if they become annoying.
From what I have seen, Myspace is the most popular of the networking-esque websites which leads it to be filled with the good and the bad. Ive had problems with the site not loading and being slow, so I do not visit very often anymore. There is a SDMB group on Myspace, if you are on or decide to join.
I have a now defunct livejournal, and a xanga and facebook account. I was blackmailed into getting xanga and facebook, but eh, it’s fun stalking my friends and leaving silly messages in their inboxes.
I put personal info in my facebook, but I only make my facebook allowed to be seen by my friends. So I have to invite my friends to be allowed to see my profile. It’s saved my butt lots of times since I put my cell phone number on there, and classmates and co-workers have used it to get a hold of me.
I’ve got all three, but I only check my MySpace and Facebook regularly.
By the way, has anyone ever joined one of the many MySpace groups? Especially the ones on politics or religion? Man, reading the debates there definitely makes me appreciate the SDMB more!
I’m on MySpace, but I only use it as a way to keep in touch with people I already know. I’m not interested in finding new friends that way. My profile doesn’t contain much in the way of personal information. Some of the surveys I fill out for fun have personal info in them, but I only post them in bulletins, which only my friends can see.
On the plus side, I had a friend that I hadn’t talked to in 5 or 6 years track me down through MySpace. And my wife and I have found a lost soul or two. It has its advantages.
I’m on facebook…god when I first got it, never realized how many kids i knew. I’ve had only ONE bad sitution with facebook, and that was with some dumbass guy with LITERALLY no social skills, who kept IMing me and asking if I wanted a boyfriend and if so, if we could “play” when I came back to visit. He would also constantly request cybersex… VERY strange. I finally blocked him, and reported him to the Res Life of my college.
Got reunited with an old summer camp buddy through myspace! I have a lot of info on my facebook, but that’s b/c I attended a small college and so know most folks… started with AIM late, so most of my college buds didn’t have my AIM.
More than just hitting the delete button, I found that you can report these creeps to Cybertipline. I am glad to know that there is a place where i can report people.
As for the social networks, I use facebook and have never had any trouble with people hassling me or anything like that but with MySpace, I just feel its had a lot of negative occurrences with it so I would just not be comfortable having a myspace profile.
I use MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, and have a defunct LiveJournal to read a few friends’ Friends-Only journals.
I use MySpace to keep up with friends mainly from TN, where I try to visit a couple times a year. Also have bands from there as friends to keep up with new music, shows, etc. One of my friends has gotten a LOT of weird messages from guys, some nasty, but I’ve never had that problem because my profile gives no indication I am a girl trying to hook up. It just lists what bands I like and my blogs are all about concerts. All I get is a lot of crap bands trying to add me.
Facebook is for college friends (duh) and keeping track of friends from high school. One weird guy sent me a message once hitting on me, but he wasn’t scary or anything. I love Facebook.
Xanga is stupid, but I use it to bitch and moan about stuff, and to keep up with my best friend (we are both very busy and her posts keep me up with the drama etc in her life when we don’t have time to talk) who goes to another college. I have a few college friends with Xangas too. Had maybe two random people posts in last 2 years that were annoying.
LiveJournal. Used this years ago but got sick of it. I have it now because I have 3 friends who have Friends-Only journals. My LJ is completely blank. Never had anything weird happen on there.
I have a myspace account, which I got a couple weeks ago. I found some friends from school, but some of them haven’t bothered to reply to my messages. I don’t blog really and the groups pale in comparison to the dope.
Strangely enough, right after I joined I started hearing a lot about myspace. Some talking about how great and popular it was and others deriding it for being a massive timewaster and a haven for pervert(Apparently these people don’t realize that such a place already exists, and it’s called the internet).
However, unless I have a serious reason to stay on it, I’m canceling my myspace account at the end of the week.
There has been tons of negative press about MySpace and I feel like i started hearing about it after the Taylor Behl murder around the DC area. I read that there is 2 times as much traffic on MySpace than google. Sounds like MySpace is more of a haven for pervs. However the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children say that 1 in 5 are solicited for sex on the internet so i guess myspace or not, you better be careful wherever you are on the internet.
Of the three, I have facebook, will probably get a myspace soon, and won’t get a friendster soon (no friends ask me to get in there).
I like Facebook’s simple layout. I put a bit more info there than in other places, but that is because it is only visible to my friends, and most of the people I have listed are either classmates or ex-classmates (or former coworkers). I’ve been able to get in touch with people I hadn’t seen in years, and didn’t think I would get in contact with again.
I’m on MySpace, but only as a kind of pre-audition for potential bandmates (I have a few original songs streaming there). I don’t use it for the networking/social aspect at all, and only look at it every now and then.
I’m too old for Facebook or Friendster. 
I have a Friendster account that I don’t use, a Myspace account that I occasionally use for keeping touch with people I already know, and a very frequently used Facebook account. I like Facebook best because it seems to have gotten it just right–all the features I want (the photo albums, the Pulse trend-trackers), and none of the features I hate (the stupid customizable homepages with embedded music and annoying wallpaper crap). Facebook also seems to have perfect privacy settings. I’ve never had any problems with any of them, though. Maybe that’s because I don’t go looking for new friends and I don’t really make myself open to those seeking new friends.
I’m on My Space, just for a fun time waster and to keep in touch with friends across the country. I’ve found a couple people on there that I haven’t spoken to in, literally, a decade. I also keep track of all my favourite bands through My Space…tour dates, new music, interviews and videos, etc. I have some other cool pages added to my friends: Juxtapoz, so I always know what’s going on with the art scene, Lloyd Kaufman, so I’m always up to date on Troma’s latest projects, and a local radio station, so I always know if any cool shows are coming to my area. Oh, and I’ve discovered some really good musicians that I never would have found otherwise, like The Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band and Mudlow.
I’ve never had any problem with perverts or creeps. Other than my friends, that is.
Well thats good, cause you know there are creeps all over the internet. Just be careful that your friends can only see your contact info and report the creeps to cybertipline, i have seen some gross things out there and its a good reference to use to report the creeps. I have facebook and i love it i am just really careful that any jow blow cannot have my name, phone number, email and street address as well as where my bedroom is in my house, haha.
I have facebook and myspace. Mostly just as mediums through which me and my friends can make fun of eachother when not in person.