My Thoughts on Social Networking Sites!! What do you think??

My experience of Social Networking is quite limited! However I am one of them Students that seem to live day by day by status updates, wall comments, constant notifications of tagged photos due to my drunken antics from the night before, and the belief that a social crisis can occur just by the sayings of the world of FACEBOOK!!

Facebook is one of the most popular social networking websites. It provides a range of age groups, but in my experience mostly 18 to 30 year olds, to interact with each other by leaving comments on each others 'walls'. The account comes with a private email box and a choice of added applications. You can add personal photos and videos and even infomation about yourself. Most importantly you can arrange you settings o that only your friends and the people you have chosen can view your profile, you can even choose what elements of your profile they see.
I personal like the website as it has so many ways for you to interact with your friends, it brings up any changes that your friends have made on their profiles so you know if they have been up to anything and you wana get in touch to comment or a general conversation.
There is a private 'MSN' like chat box as well, where you can see who is online and you can have a private instant conversation with them.


I also have one other social networking site I am part of and that is BEBO! I was actually a member of this before facebook, simply because a majority of my friends from my home (Northern Ireland) don't go to university and this is the website they use. So it was only once i joined Uni i realised the phenommen of Facebook and the need to be part of it to connect with other Uni friends.
Bebo is pretty simple, it has a private email and then also your basic profile page. On the profile you can write a about yourself or really what ever you wish. There's the choice of putting your favourite movies, music and info about what makes you happy!

Below this you can add pictures, videos, slideshows, and then there is the wall of comments again. It very user friendly and much more colourful than facebook as you can choose your own 'skin' which means the colour of the background of your page.