I have an account with both sites. I set them up as a way to promote books and reconnect with old college buds.
I used to prefer MySpace over Facebook, but I'm not so sure now.
Facebook is wonky - more so than MySpace. It takes a while to get used to its rhythms and methods. But both sites are fairly silly in their own right. MySpace continues to be a spam avenue for people posting porn sites. Facebook allows you to send virtual gifts to others (I haven't figured out the point of that yet). And I've run into people on both sites who've responded to my friend request with "Do we know each other?"
It's a funny thing to be on a networking site where people resist networking.
However, it's more difficult, it seems to me, to do this on MySpace. There seems to be more resistance to networking there than on Facebook. I've sent out oodles of friend invites on MySpace with few to no results (except for the occasional "Do we know each other?")
On Facebook, it seems to be less of an issue. Most people accept the invite and I've only had one questioner during the time I've been doing this.
I don't think all this social networking has really done a darn thing when it comes to book sales. I certainly haven't seen an increase because of it. But I'll keep on keeping on because there's definitely NO benefit in not doing it.
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