Myspace
As a child, I remember Myspace to be very basic. A basic color scheme, with space for improvement if you were familiar with HTML coding. The website was for interacting with friends, sharing pictures, and posting fun little surveys for lack of anything better to do at that age. But Myspace has really transformed as a website, and perhaps because of their great loss of popularity. Musicians now use to to debut their music and hope to increase their international fan base. Random up and coming Musicians would request to be my friend and let me know about their music. There was not much room for posting on "Walls" or having lengthy conversations like that of the Facebook website.
Facebook
A great website for networking with people I have met way back in Elementary school and now throughout college, Facebook has proven to really revolutionize the idea of maintaining relationships. We can create photo albums, tag friends in albums, post comments on walls and use instant messaging all on one outlet. Privacy becomes a big issue with this website. There is so much information available to us now; locations of our friends, the pictures other people have "liked". Many people do not want to be shown or do not want to even see that information about others on their timelines. So I heavily use the privacy settings to limit my information distribution and disable viewing other people's information that i have no use for as well.
Twitter
I really love Twitter. I love being able to express my opinions any time i please. This is something that is not really recognized on Facebook. If you post too much on FB, you are just blocked or unsubscribed from. But on Twitter, your posts can be endless (until Twitter jail comes in place of course). You can choose who to follow and what information you want on your timeline. It is a great and quick way to receive different news from everywhere. Lastly, you can utilize the privatization of your tweets, and control who receives the information you are putting out, keeping you in control.
Tumblr
This Social Network is really great for art, displaying, sharing, and creating. You basically follow a number of people and reblog or blog photos, music, text, or anything of that nature. I love that it brings out the creative side of people and its really simple to find people with similar likes as yourself. There is an issue of "stealing"art and claiming it as his or her own on Tumblr. But other than that hinderance, many people start out their art or fashion blogs through tumblr.
I liked when Facebook was meant for college students only. It was more appealing to me but now its just so time-consuming tool. Now the minimum age is 13 to open a profile in Facebook. And people has several accounts for different agendas. Its just getting complicated. But overall, Social networking tools are helpful to be productive but it has a 'dark side' like invasion of privacy and so forth.
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