After being at Myspace off and on for the last 5 years… I have finally banned Myspace and moved over to Facebook.

Yeah — there are a million articles out as to why Myspace sucks. Some are just stupid, others actually offer some great points.  While Myspace is “OK” for keeping up with friends or finding old friends, its flaws far outweigh its positives.

What’s the Difference?

I snicker a tad when people compare Myspace to Facebook, or even suggest that one is a mimic after the other. They are completely two different social site models.

What’s the difference between Myspace and Facebook? Quite a bit… but the reasons I made the switch:

• Privacy. The whole point for me going on a social site is to find “real” friends that I know IRL, or have  established a friendship with online from one of my forums. Myspace is geared for meeting of the mass — and profile whoring.
• No drive-by stalking. This hasn’t been an issue for me in a long time. But hey, for some it’s an ongoing problem. Part of the reason I like Facebook is only people you want are in your inner-circle.
• Maturity.  Because Facebook is designed specifically for a network of people that you personally know, and it’s not a “blog” network, it cuts down on the random bullshit you come across on Myspace.
• Spyware. This is ONE major issue I have with myspace. No denying it. It’s a nightmare.
• Facebook Utilities and APIs. As a developer, this is top notch. I can implement Facebook utilities just about anywhere. Myspace? Pfffft.

I have several personal communities and now this blog.  With that said Facebook, since it’s a glorified Twitter…  it’s more about connecting to friends and “updating” your status to let folks know what’s happening in your life. Very easy, very clean and very private.

Simple: Facebook actually has a purpose for me that doesn’t require a lot of my time.

Blogging: I like to blog. But I can’t take myspace as a serious blogging platform.

I will say however, if you are not really interested in running a personal blog, but you like to write and ramble about day to day stuff, Myspace does offer that solution. But you might want to consider fining a better social blog network.

But I can’t sign off without at least sharing:

Facebook is less emo than Myspace.

If I want to read about some teenager’s angst in leetspeak, I’ll read livejournal. I’ll never do that, though, because Facebook isn’t designed around the profile like Myspace is. You can’t put crappy Fallout Boy songs on your page so that they start blaring as soon as it loads, you can’t put videos of AFI regretting their own existence almost as much as I regret their existence, you can’t do anything except maybe put “Catcher in the Rye” as your favorite book. And if you do try to emo-out on Facebook, your friends will rag on you for it on your wall. Which is the way it should be, Myspace.

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Facebook Hammers MySpace on Almost All Key Features

When you think of social networks you probably think of MySpace. But recently, Facebook has been gaining popularity – since it opened up beyond college users, it has enjoyed a flood of new users, boosted further by the launch of Facebook apps. It’s time these two social networks fought it out.

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Reason #147 why Facebook is better than Myspace

Facebook lets you login whenever you want to login. Myspace will give you this joyous greeting around 30% of the time: “An unexpected error.

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