Or Facebook?

I was wondering what everyones opinion on it was.

I don't know too much about either one, but it seems like so many people I know have one or the other.

Personally, I always thought they were rather lame, but, lately I've been thinking, what the hell? Should I make one?

I'm in my late 20's and married with children so maybe that's why I carry the opinion I do on this.

I apologize for whoever has either one of these. This was in no way an intent to insult you.

had a myspace for about a week, but I got way too much spam from profiles with pictures of hot chicks who were probably Leafs Trolls.

I had a facebook through college but recently deactivated my account last week. Too many people from work (40 and 50 year old women) were finding my profile, requesting to be my friend (yes, I had to accept them or they would think that I'm not 'cool' with them) and were finding too much information about me...i.e. I'd post something like "Throwing a few back and watching the Flyers"

next day they'd come in and talk about my status from the night before. WTF. It was cool for a while - keeping in touch with my college buddies but now that everyone in the workplace has it, it's very overrated.

I HAD to get facebook for work believe it or not....(networking from the CEO--made us do linkedin as well).......my photo is the flyers emblem and I don't post or really keep up with it

I ignore people's request all the time eff them

if you don;t want to talk with them don;t LOL

I am in my mid forties and never really saw the benefit of myspace or facebook and lately effin twitter

I really don;t want to make the time for it..........I figure there is a REASON I dont; speak with you since college or high school..........

I can tell you though that it is a great place to keep track of your twenty something kids! lol

I'm late 20s, married as well, no children.

I had Facebook first in college, canceled it, had a MySpace, then signed back up for FB before it really took off and canceled MySpace. I love it.. I have an iPhone (but Im not an Apple fan), so that has a lot to do with it too. Tagging and uploading pictures, random crap you see, get and make some funny comments, etc. It's fun to communicate with people that you don't otherwise see on a daily basis, or haven't seen in a while. This is especially true for family as well.

Thing is though, I agree with everyone here griping about privacy, so I make it work for me. (PF85, you should do this, sign back up, and add me)

Make friends lists, period.

Make lists for high school, college, family, close friends, and most importantly, WORK PEOPLE and other individuals youd like to censor.

Then, in your Profile Privacy settings, add your "work people" list so that they are blocked from your Status Updates, your "mobile uploads" photo albums, etc etc, and basically anything you wouldnt want them to see.

I occasionally post controversial stuff dealing with politics, drug reform, etc, and I obviously wouldn't want work people and certain family seeing that. Other times it's just idiotic drunk ramblings or party pics with friends posted from iPhones, etc, and I wouldn't want anyone seeing that before I had a chance to "untag" or remove it the next morning lol.

It works the other way as well -- I also grant certain photos, info, etc to ONLY my "tight" list of friends.. my closest buddies (basically blocks everyone except my closest friends).

Of course this is all on top of being generally careful with who I accept, add, comment on, etc as well. I've heard so many stories (wife is a recruiter) of how companies simply google your name anymore to find anything, rather than run expensive background checks (though they still do that too). But you can find a lot about a person online, so it's in your best interest to lock it down as much as possible.

Thanks a TON for the input, everyone. I really appreciate it.

I guess it really isn't for me because I like living a rather private life. I have my core of friends and that's it. I could care less about ANYONE I went to school with. It's not that I'm a pri-k, I just have my own life and don't really care about reminiscing about old times.

Thanks, guys!

I've had a Facebook account for years, and I'm active in it virtually every day.

My MySpace account has been left to rot since God knows when.

I have a LinkedIn profile.

Twitter is open constantly.

I monitor Digg and Reddit and subscribe to about 200 RSS feeds.

But then again, I'm a web developer, currently leading a massive social project for my work. So I kinda have to do these things. :)

lol nope. I'm white and the backup QB is black...