The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #122067   Message #2673504
Posted By: GUEST
06-Jul-09 - 10:37 PM
Thread Name: The Idiot's Guide to Facebook
Subject: RE: The Idiot's Guide to Facebook
You CAN'T "customize" your Facebook profile page or home page, which is fine with me. For every decently-designed MySpace page, there are at least a dozen unreadable pages crowded with unintelligible graphics.

(No offense; I didn't mean YOU. Your MySpace page is a model of sophistication.)

I like the uniformity of the Facebook pages; once you get familiar with the format, it's very easy to nagigate and quickly find your bearings. Yeah, I know; you can validly criticize the design as "corporate," or whatever, but it's simple and it works.

Facebook does not serve as well as MySpace for self-promotion, especially not for musicians. FB makes it much easier to post videos (and of course photos) than audio files, for some reason. Facebook does allow you to set up "group" and "event" pages to publicize yourself and/or your gigs. Aside from that, I find it useful/entertaining mostly for maintining contact with people and trading wisecracks. My sons are both aspiring comedians, as are many of their friends who are now my FB "friends," and I thoroughly enjoy swapping one-liners with the bunch of them.

Incidentally, I receive videos via FB that are on YouTube, but also quite a few that are not. I think you can upload directly to a Facebook page from your computer ~ assuming that your videos are on your computer.