Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, are all social networking sites that aim to connect people all around the world.
Facebook was first designed exclusively for college students. You wouldn't expect to find people that aren't in college or did not go to college. After awhile, Facebook started to look more like Myspace, First Facebook decided to make its page available to the public. After that, random friend requests started pouring in from people i didn't even know. My female friends in particular would recieve on average 5 friend requests from people they didn't know. Now I'm not sure if that's normal for other social networking sites, but to me Facebook wasn't meant to be like that.
Also they started to create applications for Facebook, similar to myspace. So now i have my friends, my 11 year old cousins, people i don't even know, sending me virtual flowers and cards, asking me to take online quizzes to see if I'm dumb, and many other silly things. Nevertheless the site still has the best design, it is very easy to navigate and very clutter free. I'm sure once people find out that employers check employees Facebooks, that they start to remove their "how dumb are you quizzes" from their pages.
Myspace, the social networking site where you have a page, and behind that an annoying background that has way too many colors, people posting videos, pictures, advertisemnts, and just the most annoying things that make your myspace page 100 feet long.
Myspace i would have to say is used by many stalkers. There are people who friend just about anyone and everyone. Particularly men who friend all the pretty women they find on Myspace. One good thing i would say about myspace is that they allow unknown Musicians to be heard. So if you're trying to get your name out there you can put up a sample of your music and events of upcoming shows.
One thing i noticed about Friendster is that when searching for people there is one thing that stands out under each name, relationship status. That to me made Friendster like a combination of Facebook and a match.com. You might say "great that's like two sites into one!", but who actually likes to admit they've been on eharmony or match.com, not that i have anything against people who do.
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