Ok so I was recently inspired to write about this because I want to know what people REALLY think about sites like The Facebook and MySpace. Everyone I know has a page on at least one of the sites. But the people who act like these sites just are not big deals are the same ones who are addicted. My friend/roommate is majorly addicted but she will be the first one to say that it is stupid. She got off Facebook last semester but that lasted like 2 days. I do not have a page on either MySpace or Facebook so I would like to know what people think, members and non-members. Most of the people I know are on Facebook so I will mainly address it. When it first got popular I was in the fall semester of my freshman year, about 2 years ago. Everyone was just starting to get on it and said how it was so great. Its a good way to keep in touch with people from high school, they said. But all the people I want to talk to from high school I call on the phone, I said. Its a great way to meet new people, they said. But you are not really meeting anyone, you are talking to someone based on a few pictures and a profile, I said. Now I admit I sort of have a vendetta against Facebook because it is so private and you never know what is really going on. Two years ago I happened to see my boyfriend's (who I still am with now) messages and was not at all happy with what I saw. I saw girls asking when he was going to call them and go to their apartments. I saw I miss you's. I saw him commenting on girls' pictures and sending them messages saying how good they look and asking for numbers. Needless to say, it hurt and has had me paranoid about it ever since then. Of course it is a public forum because you can look at pictures and comment on people's walls and what not. But you don't and can't know what is being said in private messages. How does anyone know what is going on in their boy/girlfriend's Facebook or MySpace page? How does anyone know what is going on in their 12 and 13 year old child's page? Personally, the most positive thing I know to come from it is a girl losing her engagement ring and someone sent her a Facebook message telling her they had it. Besides that I have heard of stories of deception; friends talking about other friends in a broadcast message; and slutty ex-girlfriends making inappropriate comments on guys' pictures, causing trouble with the new girlfriend. Why do we praise a website that allows 50 year old perverts to talk to 13 year olds they would otherwise never come in contact with? But how can we attack a website that someone has found love on? There are so many sides to it, and I know I have just given one of them. What does everyone think?