Thursday, October 30, 2008

Myspace and other Social Networks

Social network sites like myspace and facebook raised to the top of most visted sites within a few months of creation. Myspace claims that it has over 100 million useres, although real user count is closer to 50 million useres. Facebook is used by over 85% of college students and is now reaching out to highschool students and graduates of all schools. However you look at that is a lot of users for each site. Myspace and Facebook are the two most used social networks but there are hundreds more and geared towards hunreds of different people.

Sites like these are taking over the generations of our time. With more of the world going more internet based standards, people are using more of there time to update and manage there web based profiles. Now you can build music, movie, and comedy profiles. Hundreds of bands now use Mspace as there main way of contact and main website.

Social networking may just be a fad of our time, but it seems that these sites are not going anywhere soon. There are many different reasons to use them and the list keeps growing daily. These social networks are taking over many peoples lives all over the world.

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