I completely understand where you are coming from and never used myspace. It was not until the olympics did I sign up for facebook b/c one of my old college friends is an olympic gold medalist so I tracked her down (trust me you are out on the internet without the use of facebook) and she told me to sign up on facebook so we could view pics of the kiddos and keep in touch. So I did and am now addicted. Thanks to facebook, I have found some old friends and vice versa. I will say that facebook has more controls than myspace so only your friends can look at your info if that is what you want. So if you do sign up just watch the links such as when you upload pictures. You can set it where only your friends can see it; friends of friends can view; or anyone.