Monday, March 14, 2011

Social networking sites-myspace,facebook,twitter

The social networking sites such as myspace, face book, and twitter have similarities and difference. In my opinion myspace and face book are very similar, they both allow for a profile, status updates, picture uploads, and various other features. I myself started off with the social net site sconex where i was able to interact with friends and even make new ones. Later as the social network grew i was introduced to myspace, where i found the same friends but could now interact with them by chatting, it was like my new instant message center. i used to love changing my profile background adding music and switching pictures. Then came facebook it was again my new outlet to the global techy world. Being able to update my status became my favorite activity, not only did i say what was on my mind but i also gave my opinion and funny quotes. It was my "blog" so to speak. And then there was twitter, after joining so many of these social websites i refused to join another but peer pressure is a biatch. My friends constantly raved about twitter so ofcourse i began tweeting. The difference with twitter is that its not as intricate as facebook and other sites. Twitter you can only added a certain amount on text, but its cool when you want your friends to see your status you jus add an @. When you want to rewrite a friends status you simply retweet or RT. Its just a cool simple way to interact with friends old and new. In my opinion these sights are all addictive, you may just be online to check an email and you see a notification and low and behold your on a social networking site.  

1 comment:

  1. I totally agree that social networking sites could get addictive at times. We could just log on to Facebook and stare at it for hours. And that could become a problem as well. Sometimes before studying for exam or start doing my homework, I would tell myself that I would just log on to FB for a little while, to relax our mind before start studying, but end up not studying at all. So I believe it is important to manage our time spend on social networking in order not to get addictive to it.

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