Wednesday, March 16, 2011

4. Social Networking Sites

Myspace is the poor man's Facebook. Facebook has all the features that Myspace has and more with an easier interface to use. Even with some of the changes that Myspace made inspired by some of Facebook's features, Facebook is easier to use and the layout is more clean. As for Twitter, it is basically a combination of Facebook's status update feature and personal messaging systems, except that they are not private at all. Another type of social networking sites I frequent is forums. On the forums, I discuss with other users about anything from sports to current events to personal matters. The only difference between a forums and Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter is that the posts on a forums are classified into subsections and furthermore into threads.
The main thing that differentiates these sites from each other is the type of users that they appeal to. Myspace seems to be more about promotion purposes, Facebook seems to be more about personal life things, Twitter seems to be more about updating, and a forums seems to be more about discussing specific things.

2 comments:

  1. Yes, I agree that Facebook is easier to use than MySpace. I never had a MySpace account because it looked difficult to use.

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  2. I remember when MySpace was the most popular social networking site. You could personalize your profile page with music and layouts with html codes.. There has been an exodus to Facebook. MySpace has now shifted its focus on music discovery and band pages.

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