Social Networking Sites

There seems to be more and more social networking sites popping up as of late.

I had a MySpace account not so long ago, and I deleted it. I recall feeling the need to login into my account each and every day. I had a few "friends" on the site who I chatted with on a regular basis, but eventually we slowly started to lose contact and go our separate ways. MySpace, in my opinion, is a cesspit containing everything that's bad in the world today - narcissism, vulgarity, falseness. I met countless people there who would display a picture of someone else (usually someone very attractive), and claim it was them. I suppose it's because of the media, amongst other things. People think they need to look a certain way, or of a certain "standard" to be accepted, which, in part, can be indeed true.

I have a Facebook account now. I only use it to stay in contact with people I know in the real world. Sometimes the site can get me down, because I see all of my other friends interacting with people they know, and saying things like "We had a great night last night." and it really opens my eyes to how much my life fails in comparison. I don't want to delete my account because they'll all be thinking I deleted them, and I do not want that to happen.

I recall when I got my first internet connection setup. Once functioning, the first sites I wanted to join and get involved in were of the social networking variety. From my experiences now, I realize just how foolish I was.