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Originally posted by drykid:

Maybe Facebook just isn't for me. I must admit I don't particularly like it anyway; it's way too cluttered and overloaded with pointless gimmicks. I guess if someone is the kind of person who thinks that sending a nudge to someone on MSN Messenger is the height of hilarity, then Facebook will seem like heaven on earth to them. But for me it's just a load of superfluous crap, mostly.

My favourite of the sites of this ilk that I've tried is LiveJournal, simply because it concentrates on providing a simple platform where you can communicate your thoughts to people you know.

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Originally posted by drykid:
but at least with Myspace et al even if it is hacked, then there isn't the info to trace things back to you in real life. Someone might be able to find embarassing info about a person they know online, but they still won't be any closer to being able to know who you actually are. Unless that is, you've put your real name on your myspace page somewhere and very few do that.

That's another thing too - if there was no good reason not to use your real name, then plenty of people on myspace or whatever would use it as a user name anyway. On the basis that it's as good a name to use as any. The fact that (in my experience anyway) virtually none of them do, suggests that most people see it as somewhat unsafe. And only do it on Facebook because they have no other choice.