Myspace what a pile of shit. The “you can make your page look like anything” crapola irritates the beejesus out of me. And for whatever reason don’t you dare open more than one myspace page using a multi-tab browser or you will co-create a cacophony of incongruent melodies, which does bring back distant memories of outdoor raves where sound bleed over was commonplace. The “my myspace designed by the-dude-that-should-not-be-a-web-designer” should be pulled out his Fancy desk chair and tarred & feathered. Lastly, the lack of ad control on your myspace page is the final nail in the coffin.
As bad as myspace is its uber-popular, and everyone organization, band, group, collective, or cult has (as their main website) a myspace page. I get shivers when I see these links please visit our site :: h*tp://myspace.com/we-have-more-friends-than-you-cult. Myspace does provide some good networking tools though tribe.net does a better job, and Facebook even tops tribe. Facebook is centered around which networks you belong to, and there is even special requirements that you actually have to be part of a network to say you belong. As compared to tribes on tribe.net or groups on myspace.com, Facebook does it right.
In other words if you are ::
13 - 17 yrs old please use myspace.
18 - 20 [or you think buringman is king OR that crystals procured your last job] please use tribe.net
21 - 103 please use facebook.com
In all fairness, I do pages on each of these. I do plan however to spend most time on Facebook and less time on the other 2, but all sites are networking tools. In my opinion its the same concept as having multiple IM accounts, and using a IM program which supports multiple chat protocols, like Miranda-IM, but I digress.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=695873273
http://www.tribe.net/talkderby2me
http://www.myspace.com/talkderby2me
Final words ::
Pay $3 / month for your own hosting account, and setup a content management system (CMS) like drupal, or a blog like wordpress. Then go choose a free theme design from the interWeb that works with either of these platforms. After that your main website will be XHTML 1.0 compliant with a URL address of http://my-own-name.com