Everyone needs a social life, right? I signed up for a MySpace account earlier this year, but never updated it or customized it much. To be honest, I probably was just too busy. But, it also wasn’t inviting, compelling, or easy to use, so that contributed to my mostly ignoring it besides putting up two pictures and accepting three or four friend invites.
This week I signed up for Facebook, another insanely popular (if less so) web-based social application. It’s like night and day—so much better! On MySpace, 9 out of 10 friend invitations were spam; Facebook’s invites have been mostly legitimate. The interface to add your details and customize your settings is clear and simple.
Facebook also made a great move recently by allowing third-party applications to synchronize with your account. In less than 5 minutes I had my Flickr account showing 15 random photos and Twitter updating my status. I really like the idea of reusing data or media that you have already worked hard on somewhere else (blog, photos, etc).
So, today I deleted the MySpace account permanently. No. Looking. Back.
