Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure I have more than one account on both Myspace and Facebook, all of which I use to say ridiculously nonsensical things to a bunch of people I don’t know.  Sort of like my blog, except Myspace and Facebook don’t allow me to run google adsense, or really do anything I might want to do that they don’t approve of. Including, if you’re on Facebook, spamming a hundred of my closest contacts.  What the deuce?

This isn’t about me, surprisingly.  This is about the Facebook’s spammer-fighting system.  If you slip up by emailing too many of your friends, adding people too quickly, or giving a poke too many, then you’re likely to have your account automatically disabled.  It’s a fun little game.  “stay in touch, but not too in touch, and not too quickly, and definitely not with too many people at one time.”  Well, that doesn’t make any sense.  Does it?

On the other hand, we have Myspace, and I’m not even sure I can say anything about it because I don’t have anything nice to say.  Which is to say you’re just as likely to find stupid people on either of the two social networking platforms.

Ultimately, the comparison is stupid because both are essentially the same thing with the exception of their user base.  I won’t make a bunch of stereotypes, but Facebook did a good thing in limiting its early users to a very specific group of people.  However, if you’re going to generate content on the Internet, do it in your own space.  Use web 2.0 services to market your own brand and product, which in most cases is yourself.

Another Stupid Comparison, Myspace vs. Facebook was first posted to justinll.com on September 4, 2008.