While I can see warnings point of view regarding social networking sites I don’t think someone who doesn’t have a facebook or myspace account can review their self worth properly. As with anything online, there’s something gay about them. Anything that is openly available for the general population is always going to have an element of gayity to it and both of the big sites definitely cause this in their own way. But I do see worth in both of the big sites and why having an account on either can be worth it if you’re into that sort of thing.

Facebooks explosion as the now most popular site in the universe is because it gives anyone easy access to connect to everyone they’ve ever known. It’s not about how many friends you have in your list it’s about how deep into your past you can you dig. And this is a good thing because those friends from the summer of ’84 you went tubing with or that neighbor girl you date raped at a Denny’s are now easily available to casually stalk and see what they’ve been doing and how ugly their offspring are. Seeing how many gay applications they’ve installed and how many spam invitations you ignore is a good indication of who’s still in the dark ages of online social etiquette but in the end it doesn’t harm anyone. The real benefit of Facebook though is the ability to schedule events with your actual friends easily and with alot of functionality.

MySpace on the other hand has gone in a different direction once the mighty Facebook popped on the scene and allowed for a more direct service to socially connect. MySpace now wants you to be able to build a social network of your favorite people, interests and musical genres as every entertainer to ever exist is on there in some form. Being able to spice up your page with queer editors is easy for any neophyte and for most it’s their first foray into html style embedding. So for all those bands and producers out there making music, them getting a crack on their own form of learning how to market their music and getting their name out there may be annoying for the lone user checking all his friend invites but again it’s a harmless form of spidering that I for one like. And plus, with MySpace we wouldn’t have Tila Tequila which means the bar for trashy reality TV wouldn’t of been set and we’d still be watching Survivor. ugh.

In the end though, both sites are what you make of them. If you don’t want anyone but your chosen circle to see any information about you, then you can. If you want the entire planet to revel in your greatness, you can do that too. Just be smart about it and don’t do something stupid. Or don’t do something even stupider.