#121: Social Networking
Earlier I wrote about Facebook and MySpace and how many of my friends are on the first one. The Economist today also has a very small piece that offers a peek into that virtual world of schmoozing. "To many, the vague geek term “Web 2.0” means using social-networking websites to communicate with friends (and, indeed, anyone you've ever met). With some 78m unique visitors in August, News Corporation's MySpace is the biggest such network, and it hopes to grow some more. This week it said it would let outsiders put programs on its site, following the lead of Facebook, its fast-growing rival. Such programs range from the useful, for example to allow users to compare movie tastes, to the inane. Those outsiders would also get to keep any advertising revenue that such programs might earn. "
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There was a research recently, and sorry to not have a link that pretty much indicated that most of Facebook users are college graduates (I guess, mainly, due to the fact that in the beginning you had to have a .edu email to join), and MySpace was just a total weird mix of everything imaginable. So Facebook is actually a lot more sophisticated in terms of audience and users, unlike MySpace with a whole lot of weirdos, nutcases, kids, immatures, and the list can go on. I chose Facebook. :)
Stan,
This is the Guardian article that I read a few months ago.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Technology/
news/story/0,,2111488,00.html?
gusrc=rss&feed=12
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