Which is best?

I am trying to keep up with 40 or 50 e-mails a week from my Japanese colleagues and ex-students. I cannot cope!

I understand that Facebook and Myspace will allow me to have a page my people can all find. I can write one short message a day and they can reply. I'd like to post lots of photos and add sound effects.

Which is the easier to use and would be easy for my low level English speaking students to use?

I've had a look round MySpace but can't seem to get into Facebook without signing up first.

Helpful suggestions welcome please, bearing in mind I'm a technophobe, and do this most unwillingly, knowing I'll have a terrible time getting used to the darned system!!!

You mean...

none of you use Facebook or Myspace?

You fibbers!

Come on now, help me out. Which would be easiest to use for my Japanese, limited-English friends?

A what?

Live Journal Community.

Howls in fury and flings hands heavenwards. Not more technology.

Please explain in words of one syllable, to a non-tech person who does not know anything, what that is.

I don't know how you folk can spend so much time on the internet doing all these things or how you find out.

Anyway someone please take pity and tell me what and where and how.

Excuse me but...

I asked what a Live journal is and how it works differently from Facebook and Myspace.

I can't compare it to the others when I don't know what it is.