(October 7, 2009) — The first time I stepped foot on MySpace was in eighth grade. I was so excited about adding all my friends and fixing my page, until my parents tuned into the news and heard about the online impersonators and child molesters. That is when MySpace became a risky site to share information. Major changes took place on the site such as setting profiles and pictures on private. Social life drama also began when each user could personalize their top eight. Since MySpace had to update their site to protect its users, it made me feel unsafe. For those reasons, I switched to Facebook. At first it was the most complicated site I had ever used since it was organized differently from MySpace, but once I got the hang of it, Facebook was actually more convenient to use. Finding friends on Facebook is much easier since everyone must use his or her real first and last name. It may seem that having our full name published on the Internet might be dangerous, but, in reality, by using our real names and pictures we make it very hard for impersonation. Facebook also makes it easier for a group of friends to interact with each other, whereas MySpace is more similar to emailing with conversations limited to two people. Facebook has also interested many parents, even some whom have started to set up profiles to stay in touch with old friends. If our parents have Facebooks, then we’re allowed to have them too, right? Every once in a while, when I log back onto MySpace, I notice that the number of my friends has decreased and there are fewer updates. Each day more and more of my friends switch to Facebook. Even though MySpace is better when it comes to personalizing a homepage or advertising a new band, Facebook is much more reliable when it comes to identity theft and having more amounts of applications. In the end, the whole purpose of these sites is to keep friends in contact, instead of worry about stolen identities, Facebook does this best.