There are some incredible benefits that social networking sites have to offer. There are so many different uses for these sites, everything from finding lost friends to staying in touch with loved ones in the military. They make it easy to keep in contact with all of your friends, family, and even fans if you are a celebrity. Social networking can also be used for business purposes.
Anyone can get started with social networking sites and set up a profile for themselves. There are various different sites like this out there today but three top social networking sites in particular that are worth talking about. That includes the Facebook site for one. This is one of the first hugely popular sites of its kind and one that is only continuing to grow in popularity.
On Facebook you are able to get set up as a member, offer personal information about yourself and add friends to your friends list. You can make posts on your friends' walls, write messages, and you can even start groups for missing children or to have an online garage sale. Although the MySpace site was one that came around quite a while before Facebook, its popularity has weaned quite a bit. The simplicity of Facebook is one of the features that make it so popular, as MySpace is more about using decoration and personalization and which takes more time.
For one thing on MySpace you are able to create your own theme for your homepage, add on pictures to the main page and really personalize it. MySpace pages are more like personal webpages and take a lot more work to keep up with. Facebook on the other hand only takes a few seconds to log on and write back to messages or write a wall post and there is a live feed that tells you what all of your friends have done recently on their Facebook account. If they added pictures, made a new friend or did anything else you can read about it and stay updated with all those that you care about.
You can also write back and forth to your friends but the idea is that there are fewer features and more of an ease of use which many people prefer. Tweets are what the posts that members make are known as and Twitter is expected to only continue to rise in terms of popularity. Social networking sites are not just for the young, and in fact older aged people are relying on these sites to stay in touch with family and see updated pictures of their loved ones. More than anything, some people are concerned that it is taking away from us being personal and instead sticking to keeping in contact with people over the computer.
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