Sunday, February 3, 2008

A review on social networking

We were assigned to set up our own account in either one of the social networking sites there is such as Friendster; Facebook; my space and etc.

I wasn't really interested whatsoever but... i guess what harm could it do, I am not of any significance to federal juristictions and other load of rules, I'm just accused of being eccentric.
But having enough knowledge with social networking, i decided to try out face book.

Before facebook, i heard about friendster which was at that time, the 'in' thing for youths to look at and spend time on. I wasn't particularly intersted till this girl made me make an account and have me add her on it.

Adding friends in your account seems like a popular hobby of most youths and i daresay some spend too much time on it. But friendster is quite a nice site with lots of features. PC savy people can easily change the format and background of the page and nicer still, you can add vids onto it. In the form of URl and you can upload ample pictures for your friends to see. And you could put a sound track to yr page which is kinda cool.

It's like a personal space on the net. and one of the more admirable feature is its security. Not everyone can access a page of a friend unless the user or owner of the page allows so. You can actually select to allow yr added frens to view your profile or anyone else.

I like friendster more compared to facebook based on the features. Facebook allows any user to gain access to anyone's profile and view whatever he or she is involved in or part of. It doesn't really show security nor retaining any privacy. But facebook is more popular because it's the new thing. and it has better security against spam ads which are specially annoying.

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