Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, and Twitter are all social networking sites that have been around for better communication. They all have chats/ communication area where people can be contacted. They are all user friendly and the help button shows and guides me to where most tools and archives are located. At the same time there are many differences. For Facebook, it is more toward individuality because most experiences are from you. You are the one sharing the stories and comments to people. MySpace has a bit more variety in term of creativity with the site. Like Facebook, it can be used for comments and stories. At the same times it can be used for collection of entertainment. Friendster gives a lot more detail information on advertising, sales, cars, news, services and more. Twitter on the other hand, shows a lot more updates with international and national news.
Of all of them, Facebook is probably the most popular one because there are more tools, archives, games and group chats. From the site, communicating with friends and other members can be done through private or public messages or a chat feature. You could also join interest or fan groups with your peer community or friends. You can control what you want to share. For example, you can block people from seeing your pictures, comments if they are not your friends. For friends of friends’ information, you could control it as if only you can see it. It is convenient for me because most of my friends are there. Since technology has improved so much, most people have their Facebook on their phones as well, so they can easily access it anywhere where there is wireless network.
MySpace is also pretty popular compared to Facebook. However, it has better customization. You can customize and update your site anyway you want. It has all kinds of layout and function that entertains the user. You can also use small emoticons to express your moods and feelings. You can do journal entries and picture albums. You can upload music and videos onto like Facebook. It also has many more other entertainment options in there.
For Friendster, I like how it can be shown in so many different languages. When I sign in for it, it automatically asks me if I want to upload a picture. I think that step was unnecessary because the interests and hobbies matter more. But I do like the step where it adds the people from my email automatically so that I don’t have to waste my time adding one by one. I also noticed that it has several ads on each click. It also has suggestions if I want to try any new things such as games and Medias. The media and games are actually pretty entertaining as well.
Lastly, I have seen twitter on a lot of smart phones and iPhones as well as with Facebook. I have never used it before. Now that I have an access to it, the site does not load that fast for me. Maybe I don’t have good connection. I get error sometimes. I tried again later around evening last night, I can finally access it. I like how it gives suggestions and ask if users want to do it or not. I see that there are a lot of topics revolving twitter. Some of them are Art & Design, Books, business, Charity, Deals & Discounts, entertainment, family, food & drink and etc. When I click the news area, it gives me a list of different news sites. This is really helpful because I don’t have to take my time looking and search for the ones I want. I can just tag them on my twitter.
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