myspace vs. facebook

Shortly after Larry went into full time ministry at our church, a couple of the staff & their wives created myspace accounts primarily to check on some of the youth kids' sites. We were concerned about the content of their websites. I wasn't sure who these kids were since I was still new to the church, but I was trying to be a helpful pastor's wife, so I did my duty--checked out their pages & then forgot all about the account I had created. Fast forward about a year. One of the ladies in the singles group (Larry was the singles pastor at the time) emailed me & encouraged me to add to my myspace profile. She was getting into myspace & thought it would be fun for me. I went back & added a picture, changed the background color and that was about it. I was on dial up at the time & it was soooo slow that I didn't want to mess with doing much else. But I did enjoy playing around with myspace. I located & reconnected with some old friends from high school and from places we've lived over the years. Over the next 2 years, I became quite fond of myspace, posting pictures & cross-posting some of my blog entries there.

Earlier this year, we had some computer trouble that all seemed to stem from myspace. I brushed it off & prayed that wasn't the case because I was really enjoying myspace. But by late summer when the computer crashed, I was pretty sure I knew what had happened. Eleven viruses were removed from the computer. Yuck. Thankfully the computer guy we had fix it was able to restore everything & we didn't lose anything. After getting the computer back, I tried to access myspace & immediately, I started having the SAME issues we'd had before. Ugh. And so....I very sadly gave up myspace. And wouldn't ya know it? The problems we had w/ the computer IMMEDIATELY stopped when I quit visiting myspace. Everything has run perfectly ever since! I don't know if it was virus stuff or spyware or what, but whatever the case, our computer & myspace aren't compatible.

When I left myspace, I knew that I'd switch over to facebook. From what I can see, it's the "grown up" version of myspace. You can still post pictures & do many of the same things you can do on myspace, but in a more streamlined way without so much glitter & neon pink flashing lights. ha!

Social networking sites aren't for everyone, but I really enjoy it. If you have a facebook page & we haven't connected there yet, look me up!