Let's get social!

It is official. I am now a member of both MySpace and Facebook, and have been for about a week.

Users of MySpace can find me at http://www.myspace.com/jkcorfy (I wanted "corfy", but it was already taken).

Users of Facebook... well, I'm not sure how to tell you to find me. I'm still getting used to that system. Finding people in Facebook seems to be a little harder than finding someone in MySpace. Part of that is by design, and part of that may be because I am new to the system and haven't learned it yet. But I have more friends in Facebook because I was able to run my email contact list through Facebook and find all of the Facebook members who I already email. MySpace has a similar feature, but either it isn't working or nobody I email is in MySpace. But most of my friends through Facebook are co-workers or people I met through Youth As Resources. So far, I haven't found any old friends like I did with MySpace.

But I read an article last week that argued that every IT Manager should at least try either MySpace or Facebook or something similar to get a general feel for what it is like and keep up with the latest trends. And since they are both free, I figured I might as well jump in and do both.

And while MySpace has blogs, I'll keep my main blog entries on my personal website, and probably just copy my entries to MySpace. Ubuntero, which is a social network for Ubuntu users that I joined a few months ago, has a neat feature where it automatically pulls my blog entries like an RSS feed. It doesn't look like MySpace does that, or if does, then I don't know how to do it.

For the most part, photos will stay on my personal site. I have a fully-functional photo gallery already set up, and I don't see any reason to move from that.

In fact, that was one of the things that kept me from trying MySpace or Facebook before. I already have my own website with a blog and photo gallery, and I have the added bonus of being able to do pretty much whatever I want to with it, rather than working through someone else's rules about what I can and cannot do. Sites like MySpace and Facebook seemed to be a duplication of effort. But finding Mark in MySpace helped change my mind about that, at least a little.