My Relationship with Media Today

Today, my relationship with the media is more frequent than it has ever been. For instance, I am a Facebook and MySpace user, but as of recently, I use Facebook more often because of the User Centered Design. The reason why I prefer to use one social network more frequently than the other is because I realized that Facebook is a lot easier to use than Myspace. Now that I am thinking about it, it is ironic because I used to feel exactly the opposite when I made my account on both networks a little over three years ago. I was one of the very first people in my high school graduating class to have a Myspace and I began to tell everyone about it because the idea of being "friends" with one's favorite celebrities and having the ability to customize my profile/ page with background graphics, my pictures, and my music. When I became more familiar with Facebook, I began to like it more than Myspace because it is more straightforward and generally easier to use. From a first time user's perspective, MySpace isn't much of a user-centered design compared to Facebook and I think that is possibly because it is frustrating to learn how to "customize" one's profile without the help of an advent Myspace user. In my opinion, young people have more patients with and leisure time to make their "page" just the way they like it and adults doesn't share the same capacity of patience or time. At least that is how I feel personally because I no longer have the same patience or free time to sit down at a computer to figure out how to revamp my profile with a new background, music, and etc every week/month. I don't have to care about those things with Facebook and that is what I like about it aside from the other things that I don't like about it such as constant advertisement and annoying applications i.e. Mafia Wars.
Another website I am a bit embarrassed to admit that I visit often is an urban gossip site called MediaTakeOut (MTO). Other than the obvious reasons why I visit this website is because of the interacivity. The images that the sever uploads with the story makes it more appealing to read because I don't have to use my own imagination to match up with the story. The image is right there and sometimes speaks for itself. This website allows its readers to comment on their stories and I read these comments because it feels as though I am having a conversation with them about the topic. Comments posted by readers throughout the country either make me laugh or furious by their ignorance like on any other gossip or blog page, but I still read them to find out how other people interpret the ridiculous stories/ pictures.
There aren't many websites or kinds of media that I view regularly because my lack of interest or simply not knowing of them because there are so many! As a media major I think that I need to broaden my familiarity with more of them, but it is not easy "keeping up with the times!"