What attracts you to social networking sites and what features are still missing?

[Bara]

sites like myspace don't allow all html.

[Whatsdamatta]

C'est blue sites are kinda like myspace.
They have good things but their bananas need more work in my opinion.

Great question!

[Walter W]

Well they all have something that's keep coming back. I love the way Face Book has security features for a user to use in order to protect their account. My Space is a little too open to viruses and other unwanted attacks. Face Book is now starting to get on the ball with the profile customization game. Something MySpace and BlackPlanet has done pretty much it seems like since the beginning. Overall, I like all three, but I had to get rid of Black Planet due to personal issues, I don't use My Space because all my friends on there use Face Book or Yahoo and it's makes no sense to log into three or four different accounts to talk to the same people. Face Book is getting better, but it's starting to allow too much which in turn will eventually make it into something like MySpace.

[Sancira]

I like the ones that give you a chance to rate pictures and profiles. When you do you can earn points toward prizes. I don't like a boring site.

[Red Panda]

The two websites that are most common to go to are FaceBook and MySpace. A couple years ago, it was Xanga. Most people go onto MySpace to keep in touch with their close friends or far distance friends same as FaceBook, but its harder to find friends on there, they are able to create their own homepages. However, I am starting to see the competition between MySpace and Facebook.

They find ways to make things better and attract more people to their website. That's the number one thing that bothers me. Like companies of cell phones. This one has a camera, this one has internet, this one has a camera, internet, and its a iphone, this one etc.

Other websites other than myspace and facebook, like hi5 or Tag tries to attract more people by copying their ideas. They should start making their own ideas, and make the networking links easier to use.

[Joe J]

myspace is good..

BUT SOMETIMES THE PROGRAMERS SUCK!

[Captain Snarky]

What motivates and attracts you most in social networking sites?

-What motivates and attracts me is the sheer volume of spam, pop-ups, and excessive ad placement because everyone knows I care more about free ringtones and iPods than I do about staying in touch with my friends and family on a social networking site.

What kind of technological features are still missing?

-Cybergasms...

[sandman]

what motivates me? the ability to stay in touch. what annoys me is myspace and the rediculous layouts with too many bells and whistles. simplicity is best. in designing your site basically copy facebook. use them as the blueprint. but skip the new applications features. in terms of your using us as unpaid guinea pigs and the yahoo answers forumsas a market research tool, my feedback is that you should be more upfront, its transparent and makes me want to avoid your product.

[geewillie]

I enjoy messaging my friends, decorating a page with my own style like on myspace, and sharing pictures with everybody.

I think you could improve by integrating social sites with messenger services. Also, some online games that can be played between two or more friends through the social site would be interesting.

[Ferret]

I like Social Networking sites because they give you the ability to stay in touch with anyone in the world on 1 website. I would like to see these sites give their users a blank customizable web page.