What does you myspace profile say about you?

So over the past few days I've become increasingly aware that I can be extreemly judgemental. I judge people, not based on looks, gender, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. I judge people based on their facebook/myspace profiles. I've found that I am under the mislead impression that by looking at one of these sites, I can tell what my friends are thinking and feeling at any given point. Take, for example, the fact that two of my friends recently broke up. How did I find out? Facebook! How did I judge how bad the break up was? Based on how low they now ranked eachother on their myspace "top eight" friends. I also took careful observation of anything that changed in their "about me" sections, layout, pictures, or profile song.

I will admit, sometimes the information that we assume because of what we see on myspace and facebook are true, but as I previously stated the information we "find" can also be misleading. Also, there are dimmensions of people that can not be observed or understood as a result of looking up their myspace profile, and there is a chance of miscommunication because of the indirectness of the source. These forms of communication have been praised as revolutionary for networking, (and I would agree) but if we lose the element of person to person communication with close friends as a result, we will unaviodably make misinformed judgements.

So, I plan to take action. I will no longer allow facebook and myspace to determine my views on what my friends are thinking and feeling. I am going to limmit myself to viewing my facebook and myspace once a day at a maximum, and I am going to make a better effort to call, drop a hand written note to, or get together in person, with my friends in order to talk with them and ask what is going on in their lives. I'll let you know how it goes!