The differences of Facebook and Myspace

The article on 293-295 of the textbook contained an article. This article was mainly about the differences between two of the premier social-networking sites. These two sites are myspace and facebook. I personally have a facebook and never really got into the whole myspace thing. I thought it was very interesting what was said in the article about how either site is the more popular with different groups of people. In my highschool there was alot of poeple that had facebook, but there were still groups that more supported myspace even though it was the least popular and older of the two. I also find that facebook and myspace DO show a division in race and culture. I cannot remember how many times iv heard someone say: "facebook is so much better, myspace is just ghetto." Now whether i agreed with that or not it did influence me to get a facebook over a myspace. I did ask around my highschool and noticed that it was indeed true that myspace seemed to be what many of my black friends had. Also some people in my school that werent black but was deep into the black culture of rap music and being from the "hood." this was very interesting to me and that is also why i find this article so interesting because it prooved something i have witnessed in my own life. The main differences with myspace and facebook is on myspace you control he background, where on facebook everyone has the standard layout. I did find that whatever was someones background was the main reflection of what people would think of you when they saw your profile, and thats one item to identify yourself with. So i thought it wasnt exactly the best way to present yourself because people will judge that very critically.