What Social Networking Sites Do You Use?

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general survey
i use

Twitter and Facebook
i have myspace and bebo, but never use them

[Ruth]

I use facebook the most and then twitter. I also have a bebo and myspace but haven't been on them in ages.

[virus888]

If you are women and using these website make sure you add me

or ur computer will be hacked

[the_unluckiest]

Facebook.

I've never liked myspace because I find that people can clutter up their profile pages with EVERYTHING and then it'll take forever to load, there's things flashing at you, music blasting, photos scrolling left and right etc. It's annoying.

Never bothered with Twitter because I don't need to update people constantly about what I'm reading, eating, watching, playing, or where I'm at etc. It's not my thing.

[leatherjackets99]

I use facebook

[Abdullah]

Facebook. It's the BEST social networking site out there. The worst social networking site is Myspace(even though all my friends are on it, only a few have Facebooks).

Here are some reasons why Myspace is TERRIBLE!

1. It is full of thousands upon thousands of spammer user accounts: If you use MySpace, you’re probably aware of the fact that you get a lot of friend requests from random people and music groups you’ve never met or heard of. This is because thousands of YouTube user accounts are maintained by spammers who use friend-adding programs to automatically add as many friends as possible. When they get thousands of friends, they post spam bulletins advertising stuff. MySpace has failed to take appropriate action to curb this massive abuse.
2. The site is slow: Anyone trying to use the site can expect a lot of messages such as “Server Too Busy,” “Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred. This error has been forwarded to MySpace’s technical group,” and so on. This is because MySpace’s servers are not powerful enough to host the traffic the site gets. Those spam bots use up a lot of site resources!
3. User-created profile pages look terrible and cause technical errors: Customizable profile pages are a nice thing, but when you allow customization to the point of having users completely f*ck up the appearance of pages and crash the browsers of those visiting profiles, your site sucks.
4. It is full of spyware: Industry experts have warned that MySpace is a “hotbed” for spyware and other malicious programs that can infect your computer.
5. It lets users crap-up their profiles with tons of videos and music: Nobody wants to see your favorite 20 music videos or listen to your terrible band’s music.
6. “Celebrity” user accounts: There are thousands of fake celebrity user accounts set up by their fans on MySpace. Why do people actually add these idiotic accounts to their friend lists? Is there something amusing about this? Frankly, it sucks.
7. Ugly advertisements everywhere: I guess if you’re already allowing users to make hideously ugly and broken profile pages, throwing hideously ugly and distracting ads all over your site isn’t a problem either.
8. There is no useful search feature: Want to search for your friends? People in your area? People with similar interests? Good luck with that: MySpace’s search tools are absolutely horrible.
9. Security flaws: MySpace has already proven itself extremely vulnerable to hacking, with the most famous case being one last year in which a worm turned thousands of user profiles into redirect links to a 9/11 conspiracy page. It may have not been extremely dangerous, but next time it could be…
10. Bulletins: This useful feature allows users to have their inboxes spammed with thousands of retarded chain letters and ads for bands. Amazing!
11. It is a haven for child molesters and pedophiles.
12. They are anti-human rights: MySpace recently launched a Chinese version of their site, readily agreeing to restrict users from seeing the truth about the Chinese regime’s crimes. Censored/Restricted topics include: religion, politics, Taiwanese independence, the Dalai Lama, and persecution of Falun Gong members.
13. MySpace is owned by NewsCorp: Rupert Murdoch’s evil corporation, which runs Fox News, also owns MySpace.
14. MySpace censors your political opinions: Those who go against the wishes of News Corp/ Fox News better watch out: it is well known that MySpace censors links.
15. MySpace users are stupid: If the ugly user-created profile pages, blogs full of idiotic and poorly-written crap, and terrible user bands aren’t enough to convince you that most of MySpace’s users are stupid, you can also see this study that shows they are statistically less-educated than users of other social networking sites.
16. MySpace is UGLY!!! I mentioned user-created pages earlier, but even the part of the site that isn’t user profiles looks terrible. [Computer geeks can also tell you that the code under the surface of the site itself is also ugly.]

Why Facebook RULES!


You can be yourself more, and still be professional.
There are ways to say things on Facebook that aren’t exactly risqué, but that you wouldn’t put on your blog, either, due to audience conflicts or content compatibility issues.

It’s easier and faster to get to know people you admire.
There are many people whose content I enjoy, that I’d like to get to know better, in a deeper way than commenting on their blog would allow, but is not as intrusive as random emailing or calling them on the phone out of the blue.

Facebook allows me to find and talk to those people, and soak up a whole different batch of their wisdom than the public at large gets to see.

So if you find out that someone you admire is on Facebook and they aren’t yet overwhelmed with noise, get on and Friend them before their list goes over 100 – that seems to be the point at which the noise has the potential to overwhelm the signal.

It helps you establish common ground to facilitate deeper bonds when networking.
You have a lot more leverage to introduce yourself to someone if you participated in several of the same discussions and are interested in the same things. With a blog you have a fleeting connect until someone comments repeatedly.

I mean, honestly, how many blogs do you visit every single day, of the ones that are in your reader?

Facebook has a system that reminds me to care for and feed my relationships with people in a way that a blog doesn’t. When you bump into someone enough within this remnder system, you’ll want a way to connect to each other more often.

It’s intimate.
This point can’t be overstated. Facebook feels like a bunch of small gatherings, even when there’s a conversation in a big group taking place among hundreds of people.

This makes people feel comfortable, when they’re comfortable they relax, when they relax, they’re more open. Meeting colleagues, potential clients and your favorite gurus is a completely different experience than when you meet them in a more public part of the Net – for better or for worse, you’ll often get the most accurate version of a person you can online.

Facebook friends are more likely to help spread your content.
In the past week that I’ve been more active than usual on Facebook, I’ve been included in Scoble’s linkblog, which led to getting on the first page of Sphinn.

I didn’t even know he read my content, we’re really only Facebook and Twitter friends, it’s not like I know the guy, though Facebook makes it feel like I do.

I also have had more of my other content either replied to or submitted to social news sites by people not on my team than in just about any othe community I’ve ever particpated in.

You can display your expertise instead of just talking about it.
It’s one thing to get compliments by peers, or to be published in a prestigous online publication because of somethng you wrote – in fact, it’s a great thing. A wonderful enhancement to that is when a potential client sees you edified by one of your peers. It’s extremely powerful, because it happens in real time.

Many of the activities you flit around the Web doing can be accessed from within Facebook, which can help organize and simplify your day.
I can Twitter, Jaiku, share blog posts I like, and do a LOT of other social media related things that are imperative to my business from within Facebook. Of course, I don’t need to have Facebook to do this. It just makes it easier and more fun.

So what happens to me when Facebook is down? The same thing that happens to me when Google is down. I don’t rely on Google for ALL my traffic, and in the same way I don’t rely on Facebook for access to my friends, social networking, etc. The part of the online world that gets pulled into Facebook is still retained on the outside of the garden – ie, I can still Twitter from the Twitter page if I like.

Facebook brings you 30 million potential people for you to market to – Without Necessarily Actively Marketing to Them.
Facebook is not a place to spam your link and people who do are mostly ignored, and occasionally chastized. Yet, even though I have not done one single thing to market myself on Facebook, I’ve got a whole new audience stream from it.

No, really, besides doing the best three things that can get people from my Facebook profile to my web page, I have done zero marketing on Facebook – and yes, there are ways to market on Facebook besides networking, I just haven’t used any of them.

And yet I get constant traffic.

It feels like a fun waste of time but it can actually double as highly productive time spent on your online business.
I know I don’t have to explain to you why feeling like you’re goofing off, when you’re growing your business, is a good thing.

The additional stream of traffic I get to my blog from Facebook is more interactive.
With only 52 friends and one network able to see my full profile – the people who come here from there are more likely to reply to posts, and they leave deep conversationsl responses. Makes sense when you think about it – traffic from a more interactive community is more likely to… um… interact.

You’ll find all kinds of long lost friends.
There are people I haven’t heard from, literally since college, that I found again through Facebook. It made my eyes mist up to see some of them around again, and doing well. That’s the best present I could ever get from being online and it was totally free.

Twitter is also very good and WAY better than MySpace. I have started calling it SuckSpace! But Facebook rules the social networking sites world!

[Tr1xx]

If you're into music, try Last.FM

It has loads of superb features, but can take an age to work out how to do some things.

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Facebook ...

However I really want to stop using it as it burns my time and there is no significant advantages of using it, but one of my friends always convince me of getting back to use it .

[Mark]

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