Last night I discovered Facebook. I know, I know, it really isn’t anything new of course, but somehow I had never taken the plunge and created an account there. I have had a profile on MySpace for a few years and because I thought the two services were two halves of the same coin, I thought I’d just be content with MySpace even though I hate most things about it.

What a surprise. I actually like Facebook. And in Facebook, I actually have a lot of friends. By that I mean that there are many more people whom I know from one thing or another on Facebook and not on MySpace.

What does all of this gain me? I’m not sure, really, except that it feels good to join networks of people whom I know, and also I get to see or find out more information about friends than I would otherwise. For instance, I got to see lots of photos of friends, Ashley and Paul, that I hadn’t seen before. And another friend had lots of photos of his little baby boy that I hadn’t seen. And I can also see friends’ birthdays.

Obviously there is such a thing as too much social network stuff, and you can easily overload yourself. One way I found out this afternoon that I can reduce the risk of overload is that I figured out a way that my blog postings here can automatically be posted in both MySpace and Facebook without any extra work on my part. Automatic crossposting. That’s cool!

So…If you use either social network and are interested in adding me as a friend, please let me know. My Facebook profile is at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=552938337 and my MySpace profile is at http://www.myspace.com/murphymoose. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I have a profile in LinkedIn as well.