Facebook Vs MySpace (2)

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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!

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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? @.^

Round Winner: Its a TIE!

The fight continues with....

Final Round: Ease of use

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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!!

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This is just for your entertainment... Enjoy!!


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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)

The Revival of Friendster.

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Welcome back…. Friendster!

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As one of the pioneering social networking sites in the internet to date has been bought over, transformed and remodeled with a completely new agenda and hopes of overpowering the other social networking sites back to the ground to collect back its number 1 spot. According to a website, TechCrunch, it is said that Friendster claims that the redesign of the entire website intends to highlight on 3 pillars; Simple, Fun and Personal.

An online payment-collection firm, MOL Global has successfully bought over 100% of Friendster Inc. As rumor has it, it is to create “Asia’s largest end-to-end content, distribution and commerce network.” In the official press release, the existing Friendster Wallet and Friendster Gift Shop will be looked upon to advance their services for Friendster’s loyal consumers.

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With its major revamp, Friendster has created a new logo; with a tagline (“Connecting Smiles”) and a brand new fresh look.

Since it took off in 2001, Friendster has been outshined by Facebook and Myspace over the years. Although Friendster may no longer be hot in the United States, it most definitely still is a big hit in the Asia/Pacific region. Richard Kimber, Friendster’s newly appointed CEO (previously under Google, as Head Sales and Operations in South East Asia). Nine years down the road with its new looks, Friendster has developed many new features.

Friendster has definitely changed its looks; (1) the interface is much more structured with an Activity Stream that allows updates, comments and adding friends, (2) a redesigned About Me section showing a larger version of the primary photo, (3) Shoutout Stream has been added, (4) users are able to change their primary color of their home page by clicking a colored box on a user panel on the top right side.

Not forgetting its brand new interactivity features and applications; (1) there’s a Gift Shop that allows users to buy and send gifts, (2) a Treasure Chest is where gifts received are displayed, (3) a collection of online pet games and casual games known as Friendster Games, (4) Friendster Chips known as virtual money, stored for games and future purchases through the Friendster Wallet, (5) users can reload their Friendster Wallets at a 7-Eleven by buying a Top-up card.

With it's exciting new features, Friendster is ready to leave its mark back on the World Wide Web for the years to come. Good luck Friendster!

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Weekly Poll - Which social networking site do you prefer?

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Last week, we came up with a poll to do a survey on which social networking site do you prefer. Now, the result is out. Thanks for everyone participation! =)

The given choices include Facebook, Friendster, My Space, Twitter and others sites. As the pie chart above shown, the most voted social networking site is Facebook! Obviously, Facebook did made an impact in today's society.The second most voted social networking site is Myspace. This is why our previous post talked about Facebook vs. Myspace. Well, different users have different needs, and Facebook and Myspace do provide different features to the users. Next rated social networking site is Twitter. Twitter is actually just as famous as Facebook, I bet all of us, came across the "follow me button" with a little cute bird icon right? People often use Twitter to follow thier favourite celebrities, friends etc. Lastly, the least rated social networking site is Friendster. I'm sure everyone knows that Friendster used to be like Facebook, who did not have an account in Friendster before? I think everyone did right?

In conclusion, the analysis is just to find out which social networking site people prefer the most? Technology is moving rapidly, especially the Internet world. Who knows another creative social networking site will be soon launched in few months later? Well, we'll see...

p/s: Is time for LiHui to get back to her S.N.S world!

Facebook Vs MySpace (1)

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I always wonder how is the battle between Mark and Tom? Whose inventions are better? Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg or MySpace by Tom Anderson. Well, this week, bring to you a close up battle between Facebook and MySpace Part 1. I will be revealing this week three rounds of versus(s) between this two top rated Social Networking Sites.

Quick Fact- Facebook is currently having 150 million members while MySpace is having 191 million members. (Selfgrowth.com)

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Round 1: Design

Layout: Indeniable, MySpace wins in this segment. According to www.techcrunch.com's Facebook Poll, only 5% of the nearly 800,000 respondents give the new layout of Facebook a thumbs up while rest go the other way. And MySpace offers layout design utilities which let users select options and preview what their page will look like.

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Profiles: Draw. Because MySpace has a lot of customizations, but Facebook’s default looks better than MySpace’s and it’s very neat and well organized.

Customization: MySpace and Facebook tie here. Facebook lets you add and remove applications, while MySpace lets you do whatever you want with the pages, only if you know a little HTML. Unfortunately thats the reason MySpace’s design is kinda messy and unorganized.

Site Organization: Both are quite organized. However, Facebook wins because of its clean layout that allows you to find everything right away, and it’s homepage is a link to everything you need in neat and tidy boxes.

Overall Site Design: Facebook is the winner for this round. MySpace might tend to look a little unprofessionally when compared to Facebook, mainly again because of it’s inconsistency in design. This time I guess its MySpace themselves, not the users, who make the site difficult to use.

Round Winner: *drum rolls* .....Its a DRAW!

Round 2: Media

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Pictures: Facebook wins!! Don't you like it when you don't have to bring your own camera and all you have to do is to have a friend who owns a camera and a Facebook account like you? because of its well-organized picture section and the ability to tag people and have people tag themselves, Facebook definitely is the winner! Also, with the applications recently released you can now add Flickr and other photosharing site streams to your profile. However, Fox now owns Photobucket, which provides photo hosting to MySpace users.

Videos: This one is a tie because both MySpace and Facebook let you upload video and they both have their own flash player. MySpace will let you embed video into your profile but you can post videos to Facebook as well.

Music: MySpace wins. Most band owns a MySpace account and fan page. However, with the new Facebook apps you can add your data from music tracking sites like Last.fm and iLike: in fact the top application on Facebook at the moment is the iLike app.

Sharing: Now, Facebook’s advantage here is only a slight one. Facebook allows you to share media links very easily and i fact automatically though the Facebook feed, something that I’m sure many MySpace users would like to be able to do (MySpace News isn’t really suited to this). You can, however, grab embedded media like videos from other profiles to repost on MySpace.

Round Winner: Facebook!!

Round 3: Community

Relationships: I have to say Facebook did a very good job in building and gaining back relationship. With a click on your mouse, you can easily find your long lost friends back in high school or you can even indicate how you know a person. Even all mothers can easily check whether their son is dating a girl or not. *Worried!* while the features for MySpace in this segment is kinda limited.

Groups: Both sites have groups, but Facebook makes them more prominent. They are a bigger part of the service and there are a lot of people using them for clever uses like planning meet up and giving info to fans.

Keeping Track of What’s New: Facebook kills MySpace here. On MySpace the only way to know if a friend added something new to their profile is to go look at it, and the only way to know if you made a new friends is to look for the person. Facebook has two feeds. One tells you what’s new with you, like who accepted your friend request or your posted items, etc. The other feed tells you what’s up with all your friends, like who they added and what groups they joined.

Messaging: This is a tie. They both have a place where people can leave messages on your profile and they both have a basic mail system.

Co-Workers: Facebook can be used as a tool to talk to the people you work with also and see what’s new with them. You can even join a network for your company. MySpace was really designed for teens so it doesn’t really have these types of features.

Round Winner: Still... Facebook! *Applauses*

Summary for part 1 of Facebook versus MySpace: Looks like Facebook dominated the first part of the competition. Eventhough MySpace has the most members but it might not be the top rated Social Networking Sites. So based on the first 3 rounds, do you agree that facebook is better than MySpace? Tell me about it...

For more hyped up competitions between Tom and Mark, stay tune for next week's Facebook Vs MySpace Part 2. Ciao!

(Source of reference: Facebook Hammers MySpace In All Key Elements, Retrieved on 18th January 2020, URL- http://mashable.com)

Hugs,

Justin.

Pros and Cons.

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Social networking is the current sensation between everyone of all ages over the world. The Internet helps it come alive and connects us; anywhere and wherever we are. It brings a large scale of people together to interact at any given time, regardless of various time zones.

Such an amazing fact, don't you think?

Today I'd be venturing on the basic ADVANTAGES and DISADVANTAGES of a social networking site.

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First and foremost, I'd like to start with the ADVANTAGES on using a social networking site.

LOW COST ; Using a social networking site is much cheaper compared to arranging meetings amongst friends and hosting a party by inviting guests through a networking site, for example Facebook and Myspace to name a few. This most clearly justifies the popularity of the site as it makes something that usually is so hard to plan, fast and simple and very cheap. Amazingly for a big company or business, they can use it to scout other businesses on their target audiences and market share which could lead into future partnership, and at a very low price.

BUILDS CREDIBILITY ; It helps a company gain confidence from their client as they get to know the target audience daily routine that could help the business sell the product in a more specific manner. As long as the company doesn't be aggressive with their building interest of the client.

CONNECTIONS ; Everyone and anyone are able to connect through a social networking site. This leads to friendships being formed from across the continent or even next door neighbours. Making friends is easy but keeping the friendship is a challenge, teaches you to play your cards right. As the saying goes, 'it's a small world'.

Where as the DISADVANTAGES on using a social networking site are as such;

LACK OF ANONYMITY ; There are many irresponsible teenagers out there that give out their personal details on various social networking sites that may lead unnecessary disturbance to occur into their private lives. Unaware of the dangerous things that could happen if the person on the other side isn't who it's supposed to be.

SCAMS AND HARASSMENT ; A social networking site could get hacked into, not every secured location can be reliable. It could disrupt security in both a personal and business context.

TIME CONSUMING ; Certain people don't enjoy clicking around a social networking site all day. Although having a social networking site is supposed to be fun and enjoyable, some group of people just see it as a waste of time.

As you've seen above, I've listed down the advantages and disadvantages, the pros and cons of these social networking sites that is vastly growing in today's society. I advice my fellow friend to take a moment and ponder on these valuable intake of information that could save you a hassle in the future.

That's all from me, for now.

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Social? Network?

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Do you social with people? Yes! you did.

Do you online? Yes! of course!

But what are Social Networking Sites?

To explain in a simple way, social networking sites are web pages that facilitate for friendly and active interaction among members. Most social networks are Internet based and aim to provide various and interesting means on how users can interact. Such features may include instant messaging, video calling, chat, file sharing, discussion groups, voice chats, emails, blogging and so on. If you are currently a user of Myspace, Facebook or Friendster, you know exactly how social network sites work. Especially Facebook! Who does not has one Facebook account, you better create one now.

The Internet is becoming part of our life. The broad coverage of networking draws us closer with everyone around the world. There are no boundaries and no longer strangers exist in our social circle especially comes to networking! Social Networking Sites becoming so popular until all the online users are actively updating at least 12 hours everyday. Through this, we are engaging to everyone, our classmates, old-schoolmates, family etc.

Social networks work by collecting profiles of members. The information or data would be openly publicized to who may have the similar interests or who are searching such profiles. It would be interesting to rate which social networking sites have the most number of members. According to one of the research I’ve found online; currently, MySpace is leading the line with an unparalleled 200 million users or members worldwide. At far second place is blogging Website. Other leaders based on traffic and membership volume rankings include Orkut, Friendster, Facebook, Bebo and Tagged.com.

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Though most of these social networking sites are open for everybody, my advice to all the users is to act accordingly to online ethics to avoid any unnecessary privacy invasion. Anyhow, we are here in a new decade. Today in 2010, why not create an account to your favorite social network sites now and interact with real people.

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Don’t you know that the best vitamin is making friends?

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p/s: LiHui is off to take her 'vitamin'.


Do stay with us for the following post ya. *winks*

Welcome to SNS-101!

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A very warm welcome to SNS-101... would like to gratitutely thanks for visiting our blog. This week, we will be explaining much on the conceptual part of the blog, hence giving you more understanding on what this blog is all about.

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SNS-101 simply means Social Networking Sites 101. It was created on 5th of January 2010 by three students of Mass Communication- Justin, Li Hui and Jillian as assigned by their lecturer Mr. Andrew. It is with the purpose of providing the viewers more insight imformations regarding the booming of social networking sites. This blog simply promised to stuff you.. with detailed information on SNS, in order for you to be a SNS savvy!..

Through SNS-101, as weekly tasks are given, we will be updating it with more creativeness in order for you not to yawn while reading it..As week passes by, it will get more interesting and updated with first class information. Below are some topics that SNS-101 will be covering in future:-

What is SNS?... Whos Better??....

Revival of Friendster!...

Privacy ensured??

Evolution and the Future of SNS!...

and MORE MORE and MORE!!

This is an open blog which encourages participation of viewers.. please do feel free to drop your precious comments and ideas as it would really help us to improve the blog. Your participation means a lot to us.. Yes! It really means a lot to us.... Thats about it for the first post. I guess its time for me to sign off! Please continue viewing and reading the blog and do show your support by joining us with your participation in commenting and dropping ideas, we promise we will be better and better!

This is Justin here signing off!

Cheers! -.^