Social Networking Sites

Social Networking Sites: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Pinterest

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Those are all social networking sites which users sharing information and connecting to other users.  All these four sites contain user personal information such as personal interest. All these four sites can spread news and pictures. All information are sharing on the cloud storage and could be set up by the user to be on public and private. Users can set their own preference and pick to follow interested information. All four sites have their own apps for phone. 

There are some differences between those four social networking sites.

Facebook: Individual and organizations use Facebook more informally then Twitter but has great amount of users in the US. Facebook has been blocked in several countries including China.  Facebook are developing into a “motherboard” model of social networking. Games, videos, and other apps can connect through Facebook accounts to share and spread information. Facebook are more focusing on activities and interaction by users.

Twitter: Twitter is more pictures, news sharing. Personally, I found Twitter is more formal news reading than the news on Facebook. News posted on the organizations’’ tweets are more reliable information. Twitter is also being blocked in some countries like China.

MySpace: I had a MySpace account back to about 2005. It was very similar to a blog and personal diary posting. It was simply a basic idea of personal stories sharing and post pictures. . With about one years using, I fount there was not very attractive activities and very few readers to read MySpace. Then after I using Facebook, I stopped using that. Now, I reregistered a new account on MySpace, I found there are a lots of changes on the social networking site. Not only pictures, it can also share music, videos and radio with people.  I guess there is not a lot of users since I only can find couple of my friends are using MySpace.  Login to MySpace can use Facebook, Twitter and Hotmail accounts.

Pinterest is a new social networking site that I had recently used. It is a web that you can search interested ideas and share those ideas and interest with friends. We can login this site by Facebook, Twitter and emails. This site is pooling ideas and information then grouping them. It providing picture search model, which is very easy for users visually to read and follow.