I joined MySpace a while ago simply so I could see some friends’ profiles there. But I never felt the site was useful other than that, and the autoplaying embedded music on everyone’s profile pages and atrocious layout kept me from visiting it much.
So when I got a Facebook invite I ignored it — it was more of the same, right? But on forums I kept seeing people talk about how Facebook was pretty cool and saw a few times “it’s like MySpace but doesn’t suck”.
It’s true. You can’t make your profile look like garbage, there are no embedded music players, you register with your real name and the user interaction and groups are really well done.
So here’s my Facebook profile.
So what’s it good for? Well, you can create user groups for discussion and organization, and I did: Road Hockey Vancouver. If you’re interested in getting some regular road hockey games in the Vancouver/Burnaby area going on, join Facebook and join that group. I’m itching to play without having to drive for an hour.
I think there’s something wrong with your Facebook group for Road Hockey, because when I go, I don’t get any option to join.
Thank Gord for real names