Comparison myspace and facebook

Social Networking

Myspace

Myspace is a social networking website that allows people from around the world to talk to anyone at any time. It is a popular website that most middle-aged and young people use. It brings people of all ages around the world together. There are many different features of myspace that allow you as viewer to do.

Myspace allows you to open an account and with an account you get to view your own and everyone else profile. Your profile is the way you communicate with every. You communicate with people in many ways. The first would be to add a display picture of yourself so that your viewer knows who you are. You can create single photos or an album of pictures of you and other people. You would then add a friends profile to your friends link on your profile. It is their choice to add you as a friend or not.

Also on profile is many titles that you can fill in to tell people about yourself. The first section is called "about you" here you can express as much or as little as you wish. There is also an option of adding a music track to your profile to "jazz" it up. You can also make your profile decorative by adding a background layout to your profile.When you first set up your profile you get a choice of if you want to set your profile to private, this is so that no one can see your information who doesn't know you.

The way of contacting and communicating people would be to send a message which is very similar to sending an e-mail. You can also post comments onto other peoples profiles and they will reply on your profile. It is an simple way of communicating.

The benefits of myspace are that you can talk to anyone all over the world for free. Also you can see if the person is on the website so you will see if you will get an instant reply to a message or comment. Another benefit is that you can reveal as much or as little information as you want on your profile. The disadvantages to this social networking is that you could be talking to anyone, unless your profile is set to private, which could put you at risk to stranger. Also the response from another person will not always be instant unless the person is online at the same time you send the message.

Facebook:

Facebook is another social networking website that allows people to talk over the Internet for free. The layout of the website is similar to myspace. It allows people to set up profile which is the way of talking to people. It also have a lot of features that allows people to communicate.

Most people these days have used facebook to reconnect with some of their old school friends or distance friends they may of fell out of contact with.

The features of facebook is that you can post information about yourself on your profile for people to see. You can add animation on your profile to make it more interesting. The way of communicating is writing on someone else facebook wall. you can also have a messaging service which is like and email. Facebook has been used to join certain groups such as your old school friends. this is a way of reconnecting. You can add interacting features to your profile as well, for example and interactive pet which you look after and feed. You can also upload default pictures and certain photo albums. Certain companies you this as well for another form of contact.

The benefits of facebook are that you can talk to anyone around the world by searching them for free. You can also play games games against people instantly and over time, as well as having an instant facebook chat. The disadvantages are that you could be talking to anyone and could be putting yourself at risk. It is also confusing to use and this could be a very big disadvantage.

Comparison.

These two social networking websites are very similar because they serve the same purpose of bringing people to together. However the structure and features of the website are very different from each other. For example myspace discuss over comments where as facebook is done over a "wall". Also facebook offers such features such games and groups. Whereas mypace offer ranking of groups, music and colour layout. Some people would say that myspace is more personal friendly and facebook could be used as personal and business use. However even though they have some differences they both service the same purpose as social networking websites.