Social Networking Part 2: Facebook.
Facebook is now the most popular Social networking site on the web with teeming multitudes of users, a gi-normous 50% of whom are claimed to log on daily (ah the irony, social networking at the cost of a social life). This maybe because of the array of options one has about showing ones self to the world - my birthday? my age? my marital status? political views? Who should I show them to? Friends? Friends of friends? Everyone? Unlike the shameless display of MySpace, Facebook allows you to be quite cagey about who you meet, reclusive even, so that you need only have contact with people online that you actually know. It is also quite easy to search for people you know through your email address book and people you used to know by which school you went to (He's married? To her? No way).
So, the verdict. If you are looking for a social network to catch up with people you already know, Facebook wins hands down. It has more members and its variety of settings gives the impression of greater control over who sees (or reads) what. If on the other hand, (I told you I like to sit on the fence) you are a business or corporation of some kind looking for a promotional tool, something anyone can come along and get involved with MySpace is a better bet. In conclusion Facebook = individual, MySpace = Community. Until next time, AJ25 out.
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