I was continuing the conversation with a co-worker about my post about Facebook, MySpace, etc. this week. Her “online profile” looks like this: has a MySpace account but doesn’t use it much, uses Facebook a lot to connect with people, and uses Xanga for blogging.

The way she sees it is that if she wants to blog, she’ll go to Xanga. But for most everything else, she goes to Facebook.

I asked her for an analogy of how she sees all of this and she had a great one. See what you think:

She sees Facebook like a universal remote control. With it, she can do a little bit of everything (share photos, email, communicate, etc like you can control your radio, TV, and DVD player with a uni-remote). But if she wants to fine-tune or specialize what she does, she uses Xanga to blog (like you’d have a different remote for your DVD player for more specific controls).

I like the analogy. What do you think?