Originally Posted by
joe____17
http:///forum/post/2924254
really i would have thought the other way around
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I work with high schoolers and have both facebook and myspace accounts to connect with them, but I always encourage my kids to go with facebook. I conducted a few tests and here's what I found:
Facebook has clean advertisments. Most of the ad's on myspace are pictures of scandalous ladies saying things like "meet local singles tonight" which clutter the page.
Myspace defaults all member pages as public pages... you have to change the settings deep within the menu's to make them private. Anyone can go onto myspace without an account and access young girls pictures and locations... pretty scary! Facebook defaults all accounts as private. In fact, unless you have a facebook account, you cannot even see anyone's name or picture. The facebook home page has ONLY a login or setup option.
I made two separate email addresses and used one to open a myspace account, and the other for a facebook account. I did not give these email addresses to any other company or organiztion. I let the email accounts sit for a month. The email account i set up with myspace after only one month had 2163 spam emails, some of them from adult sites. The email account I set up with facebook had 0 spam emails.
I like facebook's cleaner interface and live chat option. Myspace copied many of facebook's ideas... status updates and picture tagging are a few.
There has been much debate as to how much information facebook is giving to companies, but I've found that it's anonymous data. They're not giving out names, but statistics. I'd rather be an anonymous statistic to a company than have my name and email address given out everywhere, which is what myspace is doing.
In light of these findings, I much prefer facebook.