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It's hard for me to understand why people still use MySpace. I've never had an account there, but from all the user profile pages (not sure if that's what they're called) I've visited, none have been easy on the eye. Facebook seems to be the much better option to me. The Facebook fan pages can be used by most bands to build their brand and market themselves (I've only ever seen Bands using MySpace - nobody I know uses it) - maybe they should create some way for people to migrate their MySpace accounts to Facebook - that'll probably speed up MySpace's demise.

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Myspace is good as a home page for musicians, due to the high availability of bandwidth for sample tracks. Virtually every musical artist who is anything at all, has a home page there.

Facebook is a poor replacement as you must be logged in to be able to see a Facebook page.

I don't like being spied on, so I don't have a Facebook account, and never will.

As a pure social networking site for ordinary people, MySpace's days are long over.

You don't need to be logged in to see a fan page.

You need to look at it through the eyes of a teenage girl. People customize their myspaces in ways that Facebook will never allow, and it becomes part of their identity.

Here's an example: http://bit.ly/cLX6RT

That's a really well done page, unlike most of the eye-pain clutter people generally do.

In the sub-world of Heavy Metal bands I know use MySpace and Facebook and see much more traction/interaction from their MySpace page. Their FB presence really only help fans add tour dates to their calendar. The MS page is used for contacting the band and listening to new/demo tracks.

It could be that people see FB as a personal network for them and their friends whereas MS is used for music discovery. I think you'd have to work in FB or MS to really know.

I use it only to keep track of the music artists I like. It actually works really well.

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