Social Networking Sites

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn - Who doesn't know about these sites these days? I have been a member for all these social networking sites, but I've just used Facebook even though  I've had accounts on the other sites.

MySpace was very popular back in the days. It is very user friendly and has a lot of multimedia features so it's fun to use it. People could see who views their profile so there is no issue of being creepy and stalking people.

Facebook is my favorite among all. Facebook has grown so rapidly over these years that there are 800 million users across the world as of date. It has so many features such as chattimg, upload pictures, videos, subscribe all these top notch people and get updated, etc. It does not only help connect people but also help businesses to market their products. In fact it has become one of the marketing strategies for a business to post their advertisements on Facebook because all you need is a like of one user to spread the word to hundreds of their friends.

Twitter is one of the other biggest social networking sites today. The concept of twitter is more or less same of Facebook- you can upload photos, videos, share your views, etc. The terms used are different. For example, when you connect with other person, it's called follow others, whereas on Facebook  its called as becoming friends. On twitter you can only write upto 140 characters. I'm new to twitter also, but I found it very convenient to learn about the hashtag(#) that makes it easier for the users to search for a specific thing such as job. Moreover, celebrities seem to be using twitter more these days and businesses have made this site as a target for marketing their products.

Unlike other social networking sites that we talked so far, LinkedIn seems to be more professional. All these top notch people have accounts on linkedIn so if you're interested in post of specific company then you might be able to connect directly with the CEO. I've had linkedIn for a couple of months now and I've been able to connect with my co-workers and friends. You can have people write you recommendations which looks good on your profile. Its like a site where you market your self to the employers.  Moreover, you can control the privacy setting yourself. Lets say that you viewed you boss's profile and you do not want him to know that, then you can change your setting to anonymous or someone from your network.