Loading ...Social Networking sites have become popular over the past few years. Each place competes and adds new features to keep their visitors interested. These sites provide a way to:
- Connect with other people in similar niche
- Find old friends and possibly connect with extended family members
- Provide entertaining applications
- Sell products or provide an online business presence
It is all about interacting. What sites are better? Well, that is something that can be argued. Whether it is Facebook or MySpace or Twitter or something else, they provide the same basic services when taking away all the extra shiny stuff.
So many new sites have surfaced and attracted so many people because the service may be unique. People are sharing their links from other social networks so their followers and friends can connect with them at other places. What use to be the normal “I will just join these three places” has become a couple dozen. People use blog widget services like DandyID to show visitors every online social identity.
I am no longer getting the definite feeling I use to a couple years ago that social networks are trying to have open cat fights, but focus more on strengthening and upgrading their core product to provide more efficient services.
So, here is my thoughts. It does not matter how many networks you belong too. If you are there, I will follow you back. It makes everything far more fun when you can meet new people and share similar experiences. These experiences make for great conversation.
What was the first social network you joined? How active are you? Do you feel you have made some pretty good connections?
Myself, the first social networking site I joined would have to either be LiveJournal (some people count that as one) or MySpace. The only reason I joined MySpace was to keep in touch with friends in Texas when I relocated to Iowa. Ironically enough, none of my friends from Texas are friends with me on MySpace or Facebook, even if they are on those sites.
As far as social networking goes, I think it is a great thing to be able to network with others, but the problem I find is that networking with Facebook and MySpace now have become more about getting enough “crew” members on board with you to play the various applications and games.
I have also noted that if you are trying to promote a business (as I tried with my jewelry), that “friends” are hard to come by when you are on MySpace.
Whoops! I apologize! I was not meaning to write a book here! 🙂
lol… it is fine.. I am not going to be mad about long replies. I welcome anyone to comment.
MySpace is something I have considered as ‘teenie bopper-ville.” A lot of immaturity and it shows when no namers have thousands of people who comment and argue and fight. I remember a few years ago, there was some award (cannot remember the award site) and some myspacer joined and it created a lot of wank. Today, those people have pretty much a stagnant account.