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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Social Networking Sites
Aside from visiting Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter, my 4th social networking site of choice was LinkedIn. All of these are social networking site's I've had experience with before, with the first being myspace, and the latest being LinkedIn. Even though I'm signed up at all these sites, I rarely use any of them. What struck me the most was that while Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn all seemed to be focused on the individual, Myspace seemed far more focus on the "media" aspect. Ads and pop culture figures were plastered everywhere, and it didn't seem as focused on the person, but on potential interests. Facebook on the other hand was more concerned with providing a snapshot of the individiual, and upon visiting the profile pages of my friends, I was presented with pictures, some minor personal information of choice, and their likes. LinkedIn takes this concept and tones it down to be more professional. After all, it bills itself as the "World's Largest Professional Network". Lastly is Twitter, which, compared to myspace, is hyper minimalisitc, and even limits the amount that can be "tweeted" to short quips.
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I think you make a good point about each of the social networks. It seems that out of the four that you mentioned, Myspace is the odd one out because it is so "loud" with personal layouts, music on your personal page, and lots of other content choices. For me, Facebook is the one that is fairly balanced in terms of being a personal or commercial page and moderately sized status updates within their given format. Sometimes, Twitter's character restriction poses a few challenges because I want to say a little more.
ReplyDeleteI agree, myspace is rather "loud", and I suppose that's just the niche its trying to fit in. And while I agree about Twitter, I like that it's there. The character restrictions are what separate it from being glorified facebook statuses, and twitter is meant for fast quips, and the relatively small character length keeps it that way.
Deletei think you make some good points here. Honestly i dont really get why tweeter is so popular i mean the word limit for every tweet deprives one of making proper sentences. then again that might be the appeal to it...the challenge of making sense by saying so little
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if people like it, but I do appreciate it, as it's definitely what sets it apart. Hashtags too, I suppose, but those have been popping up on facebook too, as of late.
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