And now for something completely different...
...well, different from the political blogs that have been the day's norm for some odd reason, I have a MySpace account now...and I don't really like it at all. I started the account because my best friend from high school, my sister and a few other family members are on MySpace and refuse to come to LiveJournal so I figured it would be a way to keep in contact but boy is MySpace different from LiveJournal!
A few observations, cross posted from a recent MySpace Bulletin post:
I am new to MySpace, and am much more familiar with LiveJournal. I just can't seem to get the hang of this MySpace thing. On LiveJournal it's all about the blog. The blog is your entire journal and people write different things ranging from short bulletin and shout out posts to medium and long blog style posts and whatever your friends write it's all right there in one place on your friends page. None of this, go here for bulletins, and here for blogs, and here to people's profiles for random comments. Everything is all in one place and it stays there forever unless someone deletes it.
Oh, and on LiveJournal, everyone can see all of the comments to the blogs. It's not like on MySpace where the answer might be on my profile but the question is on my sister's and any 3rd party is left wondering WTF? With all of the comments in one place on LiveJournal, I can actually go back and track entire conversations I have had with someone all in one place, with the blog/comment/bulletin/etc... that prompted the comments to give it context. Concept!
As near as I can tell on MySpace, no one reads the blogs at all. On MySpace they are much more interested in bulletins that only last for 10 days and twitter like comments on peoples profiles that are never collected together for context. I have decided that MySpace is LiveJournal with ADHD.