Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Facebook

I've had intentions on creating a facebook profile for months, but knew I needed to devote time to set everything up. I really dislike my Myspace profile, for a few reasons. One reason is all the ads, and another is the pornographic friend requests. Just the other day, a friend request came from a naked girl lying face down, using the floor to cover the bare minimum. If I really wanted to view porn (which I don't), I wouldn't go to MySpace. To showcase my frustration, I changed my MySpace status to "Joel wants to get rid of his MySpace profile."

On Sunday, I went to Facebook and thought, "I'll just create my profile real quick and come back to it later." So I created my profile, but then saw how I could add friends using my email, and by people who graduated with me. I found people I hadn't talked to in years! Then I added my contact info, then people started accepting my friend requests...and then...and then.....3 hours later, I had to give the laptop back to Heather so that she could write lesson plans.

Needless to say, Facebook is far better than MySpace. For those of you that have it, I don't have to tell you that, but I just experienced it for myself. I enjoy how no one can view your profile unless they are a "friend," and there are no "screen names." There are many other things that make Facebook better, but I haven't experienced them all yet. One person told me that Facebook is to Macs as MySpace is to PCs. I'd have to agree.

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