“A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.”(wiki)
Some Social Networking Sites:
1. Facebook- Facebook is a social networking website where users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves.
Very broad with a lot of users and gimmicks; fun wall, pokes, and games. I find that most of my friends like this site better than the others.
2. MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.
I find it more artists oriented; helps new bands to get recognition, new independent theatre performance, exhibitions, and more events.
3. Friendster is based on the circle of friends and web of friends’ techniques for networking individuals in virtual communities.
I find it a smaller version of Facebook.
4. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site mainly used for professional networking. Where it can help find jobs, also recruiters using this site to find perspective employees since you can upload your profile, resume, and recommendation letters.
Sources:
http://www.friendster.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.myspace.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn
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my friends prefer facebook over the other social networks as well. i totally agree with what you said about myspace being more artist oriented. i feel like more and more musicians and singers use it as a way to promote their work.
Most people now in days are stuck on myspace and facebook. I personally like myspace because you can personalize it to your liking.
I think face book is basically targeted towards students.I have used both my space and facebook but as of right now both the accounts are inactive.In my opnion i think my space is user friendly whereas facebook is loaded with applications which is a big drawback.
Your analyses for the social networking sites are well organized. I did not know some of the information before.
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