Fourth Library Thing - Wait, what happened to 2 and 3?

Oh, apparently they were the creating & registering a blog ones, I see.

Anyway I already have a FaceBook account (as does most of the department) so I have already experienced the... joys... of being Booked. I tend to find it a tad busy - too many things happening that I can't be bothered immersing myself into, so I essentially end up just responding to other peoples requests : ) Also attempting to work out how to find people, what a network is, what a group is, finding a specific group and such is a fairly steep learning curve (well it was for me...). Easiest thing to do is to find someone who already has an account to send you a friend request then you can piggy-back off their account (although, that may be where my confusion lies - because I didn't really spend much time trying to work out how to do stuff I don't know how to do it. Hmm fancy that).

Bebo I like better than FaceBook - the interface seems cleaner and easier to navigate (although I don't have an account so don't know about that side of things). It does seem like a pretty good place to find interesting movie clips and such - although it is a tad dodgy having a movie of a tied up woman entitled 'Dream Lover' on the homepage : / Wonder if they have any WoW clips...
I like the time limited auto-login option - log in automagically but stop remembering me after two weeks is a good idea, especially when with all things faddy after a couple of weeks one tends to have found a new toy to play with.

And now for the dreaded MySpace *shudder* looking at the main page it looks slightly more comprehensible than FaceBook. I'm a little sceptical about the default search including relationship options : / Or perhaps I'm missing the point and MySpace is actually a dating site?

I've discussed with people, who tell me that the fields I'm seeing as being about dating are optional (so people don't actually have to fill them in) - as are the search options as well. I just feel that if the site is about making friends and being sociable, dating is only a part, rather than the first thing that you search for. Perhaps this is part of a bigger social discussion around the point of being sociable, dating habits/mores (it seems that when trying to find people on here the search strategy asks 'who would I like to date' which I guess is as good a basis for finding compatable people as any - but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't date most of my friends).

Maybe I'm just confused and read too much into it : / But I am a moral philosopher, so it is my calling...