Myspace and Facebook apart of social lives

At least in my circle, Facebook is this giant dominating force that is second only to our actual physical interaction with each other every day. If somebody says something, takes a picture (especially an incriminating picture) or takes a movie, at least two people go "FACEBOOK IT!" immediately following the event. And the reverse is true also: people share things found on the internet (esp. viral vids) and share them via Facebook, and less than 24 hours later it's being quoted and/or sung all over the music building. Maybe it's a musician thing .

MySpace is not even half as popular, probably because Facebook used to be college-only, so the people I'm around most often started using that first when they were freshmen (now all are about juniors-seniors). I always used to keep my MySpace-Facebook lives separate, because my MySpace people were all the ones not in college back home who couldn't have a Facebook account. There's a bit of drama with the Top Friends thing, though. One of my friends got into a huge not-talking argument and her boyfriend took her off of his Top 8 .

And yeah, it reminds me a bit of high school. Oh well.
It's also a good way to keep up with old friends, as Sass said.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by DragoonKain

Whether it is good or bad, I think it is a reality at this point that online is becoming THE social lives of some people now. It is so easy to make friends without getting up and leaving your house these days. I think a lot of people's entire social lives exist online, if not all, then a very large portion.

Well, the overwhelming majority of people I have on Facebook are people that I have personally met at some time or another. However, it's true that it allows you to keep in touch with people who, under normal circumstances, you might have completely lost touch with (and therefore allow you to have an entire "social life" lived virtually). But I used to [try and] do that via 'penpals' in the days before computers, with people I would meet on a camping trip or summer thing. Facebook just makes it easier.

It also changes the dynamic of some of my IRL friendships; some of my friends I actually prefer to chat/message with instead of phone-talking.

There's nowhere I can't reach.