Let's Diversify

@p1kef1sh (45681)
August 30, 2008 6:46am CST
So many people have said to me that I really ought to have a Myspace, Facebook, My Yearbook, Yuwie, Posttoriches account! Well I have and a fat lot of good they've done me. Apart from Facebook where I "talk" to family or people that I regard as family, I have singularly failed to get my head around how these other places work. I have searched and found names that I recognise, but I'd never ask them to be a friend. I've even posted stuff, but that doesn't work too well. Nope, I just have to face it. I'm really a one site man. So how many other accounts do you have and do you manage to juggle them all simultaneously?
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@guybrush (4658)
• Australia
30 Aug 08
I have a Facebook, and it's handy to catch up with family photographs, etc., as my two middle daughters now live a long way away. I also have a mySpace, but don't bother with it anymore because I don't like it much. At least with Facebook people are using their real names. I actually found my first schoolfriend from when I moved to Australia - though I hadn't heard from her in over 25 years - and that was pretty exciting. I also have a blog, which I really enjoy working on. I've never heard of Yuwie or PosterOstriches ... they sound rather like PageThreeEmus - very seductive!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
I use Facebook for the same reason Guy. I don't go hunting people. They may find me, but mostly it's family and a few friends - ex myLotters too. Yuwie I am not a member of. It's a bit like myLot and as for Posttoriches; I am only there because a friend recommended it and I have never seen her there. She must operate under a different name.
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@guybrush (4658)
• Australia
31 Aug 08
Thanks mands - you're very kind! Yes, it was nice to find my old school friend - and lucky she was using her maiden name, as I never would have found her otherwise. I didn't find anyone else, though - probably a lot of people my age aren't on Facebook!
31 Aug 08
i think practically the whole of my school year is on facebook and half of my family and friends i probably communicate more with them on there than i do on the phone lol good for finding people you haven't spoken to in ages and visa versa. Guybrush your blog is awsome makes me laugh my socks off!
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@gemini_rose (16264)
30 Aug 08
I have Myspace, facebook too. I did have lots more but I cannot keep up with so many of these places. I have enough trouble keeping up here sometimes. Myspace I actually like, only because in the last few days I have had hundreds of bands and the like wanting to be my friend which I think is pretty cool, and get this I am friends with Kiefer Sutherland. HOW cool is that! Plus there are millions of other of my favourites stars on there too. So I do like myspace for that, but I dont really go on it much. I do not think I actually juggle all my sites, more bumble through them than anything!!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
Facebook I have only about ten friends on Gemini. All family or migrants from here. But get you being a friend to the stars. LOL.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
Stick with the stars.
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
30 Aug 08
Goodness P1ke I did not know you where on Yuwie I could have helped you and taught you how to do it Apart from this one I belong to another Sites and one of them is Yuwie Well P1ke I will see you when I eventually come back on here you have my Email Addy if you want to keep in touch Big Hugs to you my Friend but if you are still at Yuwie well I will be there xx
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
Yuwie is the one that I am not a member of Gabs. I have looked but couldn't work it out. But I know how to keep in touch with you so you don't get away to easily!!! LOL.
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
30 Aug 08
I don't want to from a dear Friend like you Hugs
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
30 Aug 08
Gabs sent you an email after mine to you didn't work and hope it got to you by now.. huggs
@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
31 Aug 08
Let's see... I started with Classmates.com years ago. I don't use that site anymore though. I then was convinced by a friend to get on MySpace. I had a good time making my page pretty and have a bunch pictures and blinking things on there. I talk to family and people that I went to school with on that. I found Mylot a year ago this month. I come here every few days, or as often as I can. I joined Facebook a few months ago. Aside from my mother in law, everyone on my facebook is someone that I went to high school with. I don't like it as much as myspace but there are different friends there that I communicate with. I really don't like all the applications that are on facebook. The bad thing is they are all being put on myspace now. I probably spend the most time here on mylot, more than all the rest put together.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
31 Aug 08
That's a lot of sites. I do use Facebook and here of course. But my other accounts are unused. All those templates and bliking things I find distracting, although I am sure that yours is beautiful. Mine would just annoy the pants off me. LOL.
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@ellie333 (21016)
30 Aug 08
Hi P1kef1sh, I am like you I really only have time to concentrate on one site at a time and myLot is my chosen one. I do have a MySpace account but don't use it and the other site is Friends Reunited but other than searching for one particular paerson haven't really used even though a couple of people have contacted me through it. I would have to be online 24/7 to cope with more than one site at a time and even on that I get behind. Ellie :D
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
I forgot about Friends Reunited. I do have an account there are three people have "found" me. We've chatted once, remembered why we didn't keep up our friendships and gone our separate ways again. I'd love to know where Ruby's got to though. She's not here anymore.
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@mands61123 (2098)
31 Aug 08
hey daddy i have facebook which i use just as much as here and myspace (that i've been on like 3 times this year), I use messenger and email pretty much everyday. I did used to use friendsreunited but everyones on facebook now so i don't bother the only other sites i go on regular are freewebs (my website), ebay (cos i'm selling stuff) and squidoo (for my lens). I have been reading guybrushs blog recently aswell to cheer me up!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
31 Aug 08
I have facebook and myLot that I use regularly. I have other accounts but don't bother with them. What's Squidoo? Guy's blog is wonderful. Probably the best that I have ever read.
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31 Aug 08
It's a blog site and you can save groups and charities and all sorts of stuff. Yeh mines not even a 1% as good as hers.
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@pumpkinjam (8770)
• United Kingdom
31 Aug 08
I joined quite a few different places like that but now only use Facebook. I forget what's what with most stuff. There have been occasions when I have wanted to do something on Myspace but forgot that it was about the only one on which I didn't have an account and, as I am on all sorts of random sites which I forget about, I really couldn't be doing with trying to figure that one out as well. I think a couple of Facebook "friends" have deleted me because I can't keep up with everyone on there. I couldn't even name all the sites I signed up to but I found real people on Facebook rather than random online people like on most other sites. I don't even know how I "met" some of those people.
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• United Kingdom
31 Aug 08
You could always use one of the 3 email addresses or the Yahoo messenger ID I gave you.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
31 Aug 08
True. We've settled into the Facebook routine. But I'm happy to try another avenue if you like.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
31 Aug 08
I'm pleased that you use Facebook. How'd I talk to you otherwise? LOL.
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• Canada
1 Sep 08
I am only on Facebook because most of my family is on there, and it's the fastest easiest way for us to share pics with eachother. My cousin joined, and uploaded her wedding pictures there, so I decided to join to look at them, as did everyone else in the family with an e-mail account. Then when I got married (again, second ceremony since we eloped) I uploaded my pics there, since my family was already on there in the first place. Besides that, I prefer networks like this that actually PAY me for content!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
1 Sep 08
I'm much the same. Facebook for family and close friends and here for everything else.
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@mummymo (23706)
2 Sep 08
Another thing we have in common my fishy friend - yaaay now you don't have to cry! I have a bebo , facebook and yuwie as well as others I cannot even remember but I very rarely look at them as I like you find I can only really concentrate on one site - I have no idea how other people manage to juggle 3 or more sites as I cannot even manage 2! We are just selective sweetheart! xxxx
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@mummymo (23706)
2 Sep 08
I would be most upset if you weren't on my friends list! lol Hugs xxx
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
2 Sep 08
Indeed Mummymo. Now I'm very pleased that you are one of my Facebook friends. Even though we actually mostly use here and e mails to chat! XX
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@Elixiress (3878)
31 Aug 08
I have a myspace account, which I have had for many years, I have a facebook account, which I have had for about a year and I have a posttoriches account that I have had for a month. The first two I just check on once a day, so it does not really take long for me to be completely updated on things that my friends are doing. However posttoriches takes a bit more balancing, because to earn money you have to reply to responses, which is quite tricky as many of them are locked after only a few days of them being posted.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
31 Aug 08
My daughter had Bebo, then Myspace and now Facebook. She and my sister got me onto facebook as a way of keeping in touch with her when she went to university, and also the rest of the family. I am looking for a friend from here who I think has gone to Posttoriches, I joined there but couldn't find her. My eyes boggled there. The discussions seemed a copy of the duller ones from here too. I shan't be bothering too much.
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@Elixiress (3878)
31 Aug 08
I have never been a fan of Bebo. Also post to riches is good in the way that it gives you a certain amount per post, but bad in the way that it does not pay you for making discussions and locks threads really quickly (after a few days of them opening).
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@liquorice (3887)
31 Aug 08
Well, I've never even heard of some of those! I use Facebook too, and I also use it to keep in touch with family and close friends. I don't see the point really of having any other similar accounts; I think if I had more I'd just spend less time on each one, and wouldn't get to use each one "properly". I like having Facebook as my main social network site. Plus it's quite easy to use. If I joined other ones, I'd have to learn to use those too, lol! An old friend added me on yet another site, called hi5, the other day. I had to learn my way around it just to be able to see her message and send her one back. It took ages!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
31 Aug 08
A friend of mine told me that she had moved to Posttoriches. I joined but I've given up trying to find her. She's changed her name but not told me what it is!! I use Facebook for the same reasons that you do.
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@property (453)
• United States
30 Aug 08
i'm on myspace and tsr... my myspace is set so that you need to know my last name to send a friend request, so that keeps spammers and such from bugging me. i found that it is a great way for old friends to relocate me. One friend from myspace contacted me after not seeing me since she was a child. Its pretty cool when that sort of thing happens. i also like that i can post pictures of my kids and what not so that my far away friends can see what i'm up to!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
tsr? That's a new one on me. I use my Facebook the same as you do your Myspace. You have to know my name to find it. Even then you've got to find me. I've never had a friends request so it must work. Or I'm too boring. Probably that one!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
Oh yes. I know what you are talking about now. I have been there. Today in fact. LOL.
@property (453)
• United States
30 Aug 08
Lol... doubt it is that your boring! And as for tsr, not a place for everyone, but i know that You have been there. Briefly at least.
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• United States
30 Aug 08
ive only used yuwie, myspace and face book but myspace is the best.. yuwie has too many technical problems and faceobook is so freaking boring its not even funny!! i have found old friends and made new ones and my current best friend are all from myspace
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
Although I have a Myspace account, I don't really understand how it works. I do have Facebook so that I can see family pics and talk to them too, plus a couple of other friends. But myLot is my usual dwelling place. I understand how this site works.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
I can view pictures and E mail on Facebook. Every Myspace and Yuwie account seems to have garish templates and adverts. Jukeboxes - I have one on my myLot age come to think of it - but I just don't find them "friendly".
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• United States
30 Aug 08
what part do you not understand? yuwie is the same as myspace as far as layout and its funny since you understand facebook and that confuses the heck outta me lol
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@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
14 Sep 08
i have friendster and i really enjoy there with my friends but since i join mylot i have changed a lot.i spend most of the time in mylot.not just you get paid but also lots of interesting topic here.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
15 Sep 08
I'm glad that you are enjoying myLot. It's not a bad site at all.
@nannacroc (4049)
30 Aug 08
I have about half a dozen accounts with dfferent networking sites. I usd to spend a lot of time on yahoo 360 but they messed that up. I can't be bothered to work out how yuwie etc. work so I tend to just answer questions here and very occassionly write a webble on Multiply. Oldest daughter seems to manage 3 or 4 sites, middle one seems to just talk to a strange man on facebook and yungest doesn't bother with any of them much. Another likeness between us, I rarely ask anyone to be my friend on any site.
@nannacroc (4049)
30 Aug 08
No we've never been introduced but according to the girls there was no need for introductions as they think I spend Sunday evening talking to myself. Yes I have spoken to the middle one but, as usual, she egg nores me.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
That's the last egg nog she gets at Christmas then!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
Who are you. Do know you. LOL. I hope that you've told middle daughter about talking to strange men! I must have a look at your webble again. You might have written something since last time. Mind you are like me. Silence is golden. LOL.
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
14 Sep 08
I spend far too much time on Facebook, and have been known to do the same on here at MyLot. Aside from my absence from this site for most of the summer, I would say I juggle those two sites quite easily. I also have a Yuwie account, but I rarely go there. Although this thread has reminded me to check it out and see if I can catch up with my dear lion friend. I THINK I have a MySpace, but I never use it. I think I had to add it one time to view something or other, and let it be. Because if I'm not mistaken, it's somehow tied to my msn.
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
15 Sep 08
I haven't used skype since whenever we last chatted on it. I don't think to turn it on. Yup, I found my lion friend on here. And I decided to delete my Yuwie account last night. No point in having it when I don't use it.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
15 Sep 08
I for one am pleased about the amount of time that you spend on Facebook! I don't have Yuwie but I do have mySpace where one or two friends from here appear too. Your lion friend is still active here and whilst he and I rarely meet these days, I do seem him around. I do have MSN Messenger, but I didn't know that it was tied to mySpace. Mostly I use Yahoo Messenger or Skype.
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• Singapore
31 Aug 08
Of all the sites, you mentioned, I'm only a member of 1 - Facebook. I personally feel that it's a great site to stay in touch with friends and family. I have met so many of my friends through this channel. I think Facebook is all I need at the moment. I don't think I would be able to handle too many websites at the same time because I don't want to waste too much time there.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
31 Aug 08
I don't like the applications, but I do use Facebook for the same reason that you do. Otherwise I am here. My accounts elsewhere are lying dormant. I have several close friends here and although we are on each others Facebook accounts we tend to come here mostly.
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@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
30 Aug 08
I have a MySpace and Facebook account, but I don't go there but every...maybe 2 months. But I do spend more time at another site something like this one. And at a writing site.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
30 Aug 08
I get to Facebook most days to pick up my e mails. The others are not visited at all really. I am a member of Helium, but I don't understand it at all. Probably just as well with my writing style!! LOL.
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30 Aug 08
Hi plkeflsh, I wouldn't know whats that all about and I would not know how to handle it so I just stick to one thing and it keeps me out of trouble and keeps be busy, I don't know people cope with so maney sites, how do they keep up? Tamara
@p1kef1sh (45681)
31 Aug 08
Cheeky! I'd make a good Sun Stunner!! LOL. It's my friends that keep me here. Even the ones that threaten to wash my mouth out like Ellie and....... I'm sure that she had some accomplices!!
31 Aug 08
Hi plkeflsh, Well we wouldn't really want you going anywhere else, who else is ellie going to chase to wash your mout out and ellie got accomplices? I wonder who? he he you will just have to stay and keep us all in line. Your friend Tamara
31 Aug 08
Hi plkeflsh, I don't think that is a good idea plke, the Sun will lose money he he anyway we are all here and I don't have a facebook just this site, its keeps me busy especialy when you are around keeping us busy, wee like you being here, ask ellie. Tour friend Tamara
@Jenaisle (14078)
• Philippines
31 Aug 08
I don't have a facebook and Myspace too. I can't attend to all if I'll still sign up with them. I have Mylot and entrecard -good enough for me and these two keep my hands full, I do have a number of blogs to maintain too. And I have an 8 to 5 job which sometimes require me to do overtime. I'm not complaining though. I just wish I had more time to do more. Cheers!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
31 Aug 08
You sound very busy Jenaisle. I just laze around everyday doig myLot mostly. Still, I'm off to Singapore in a couple of weeks. I shall be very active then. So much to see and not enough time to see it all in!
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