Plot Monkeys

I am of the “I’ll try anything” PR wise point of view. Especially if it’s a) free and b) I don’t have to travel.

Myspace came first and once I got my Myspace page going, it sort of became self-operating in that I never went out and sought friends, they came to me. This worked well for me because to this day I can’t figure out how to find people on Myspace. It’s easy to log on and OK friends. I fall down on answering mail there, but it’s getting better. I’ve begun to do bulletins and add some of our plotmonkey blogs on my Myspace blog to bring readers into our jungle world. It’s going well.

One day on my Carly Phillips Yahoo Fan Group (another thing that I fall down on and it’s really not active which I feel bad about), someone asked me if I’d join Facebook. So I did. For a long time, I would forget to log onto my Facebook site and when I did, I’d be confused about what I saw there. Someone sent me a Zombie invitation. HUH?

So I went about my business on Myspace, virtually ignoring Facebook. Thank goodness they send those annoying email reminders (which you can disable but I don’t or I’d forget about the site altogether!) … and then, recently a funny thing happened: I began to get more FRIEND requests on Facebook. They were from other authors, so I did what any smart author would do, as I became their friend and was allowed to see their profile, I’d check out their friends – which is more manageable on Facebook than Myspace it seems. For some reason people have less friends on Facebook than Myspace – maybe because Facebook is more about “real” friends? I don’t know.And I’d add them to my Friends.

I learned that Facebook can be fun. I’ve been “toilet papered” and “trout slapped” and someone threw a sheep at me. I can throw a sheep right back. Time sucking? You betcha! But still fun.

But then I realized something else: ALL MY FACEBOOK FRIENDS are other authors! Or most of them. Not readers.

Which leads me to a question:
For authors, is Facebook more of a social/personal site and Myspace more of a meet strangers therefore more of a PR site? For readers/bloggers who are in some way familiar with these sites, what do you think the answer is?
Which site do you prefer and why?