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This week brings to the part two of Facebook versus MySpace. Well, I guess most of you wanna know who's the boss right? The part two of Facebook Vs MySpace will discuss about the two key elements which are Usefulness and Ease of Use in social networking sites. After that, you will get to know whos the overall winner of this two popular Social networking sites~!
Let's get the race started!
Round 4: Usefulness
Finding Old Friends: It can't be denied that one of the major reasons for joining a social network is to reconnect with old friends or classmates. Facebook makes this really easy because the whole site is organized by schools and now by locations too. So unless you forgot your friends name you will probably be able to find them if they have an account. MySpace lets you search for school friends, but doesn’t put the emphasis on real friendships.
Communication: Facebook is definitely a good way to contact people if you don’t know their contact info. You can send an email thru it or even use the Facebook chat to find out whether your friend is online. Besides that, if uyou were to have an events, Facebook makes it easy when you can invite them and put down important info. Hence, someone is more likely to notice a Facebook message than a MySpace Message due to the fact that there is less Facebook spam.
Promoting Yourself: MySpace wins here. Thousands of bands use MySpace to promote their music and their fans use it to show their support. This isn’t nearly as evident on Facebook, although groups allow companies to promote themselves. But Facebook is slowly improving as there are more and more Fans Page.. =) you can even create for your own.. I wonder whether my coursemate helped me to creat a Justin's Fans Page? @.^
Communication: Facebook is definitely a good way to contact people if you don’t know their contact info. You can send an email thru it or even use the Facebook chat to find out whether your friend is online. Besides that, if uyou were to have an events, Facebook makes it easy when you can invite them and put down important info. Hence, someone is more likely to notice a Facebook message than a MySpace Message due to the fact that there is less Facebook spam.
Promoting Yourself: MySpace wins here. Thousands of bands use MySpace to promote their music and their fans use it to show their support. This isn’t nearly as evident on Facebook, although groups allow companies to promote themselves. But Facebook is slowly improving as there are more and more Fans Page.. =) you can even create for your own.. I wonder whether my coursemate helped me to creat a Justin's Fans Page? @.^
Round Winner: Its a TIE!
The fight continues with....
Final Round: Ease of use
Adding Friends: MySpace wins here because adding new friends and accepting friends requests is usually a one click process. The major advance here over Facebook is the ability to add large amounts of friends at once which for some reason was never added to Facebook.
Search: The winner here is a little bit surprising when you consider Google does the search for the loser. Facebook’s search beats MySpace by a mile. Even though the search engine giant Google is providing MySpace’s search, its results are not nearly as useful as Facebook’s. The big issue here is that MySpace’s search looks in the whole profile, even when just looking for a person, Facebook’s is smart enough to know if you are looking for a user or a movie in someone’s interests.
Navigation: Both MySpace and Facebook have pretty decent navigation, but Facebook beats MySpace when it comes to getting to specific people’s profiles due to its superior search.
Privacy: You can choose who to show your infos and who not to show, Facebook makes it really easy to hide info from certain people and to not show information that you want to be kept private. So, if you only want you close friends to see you contact info, it only takes a second. MySpace has privacy too, but it’s far less granular.
Round Winner: Facebook!
An the Winner is… Facebook!!
This is just for your entertainment... Enjoy!!
Facebook v. MySpace
Uploaded by luvtoolearn. - Parties, dorm life, and other college videos.
Facebook v. MySpace
Uploaded by luvtoolearn. - Parties, dorm life, and other college videos.
(video obtained from http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5gnya_facebook-v-myspace_school)
Why not you tell me whether you agree with the comparison above.. =)
Signing off..
Justin. ^.^
(Source of reference: Facebook Hammers MySpace In All Key Elements, Retrieved on 18th January 2020, URL- http://mashable.com)
