Friendster VS Facebook

I believe most if not all of us heard of this social networking site call “FACEBOOK!” This social networking site was first launched in February 2004. Till date, it has more than 600million active users! What exactly are the things we can do in FACEBOOK that resulted in such a great response from people all over the world?! Let's take a look at why FACEBOOK is so successful…

You are able to update your status on your current thought or anything that comes to your mind that you would like to share with all your friends in FACEBOOK.

After clicking SHARE, it will appear on your wall and your friends will be able to start commenting on your status.

You can also go to your friend's FACEBOOK page and post anything on their wall to let them know you miss them or simply just anything that comes to your mind.

Facebook also has plenty of games for users to play during their free time. Many people find the games addictive because just like this bejeweled bliz, everyone is trying to hit their highest score such that they will be the top in his/her friend lists. It is always fun to be able to compete with one another thus it becomes addictive!

FACEBOOK also allows us to upload pictures as well as allowing others to tag you in photos where you are present. The ones circled in red are albums created by ourselves while the one circled in green are pictures that your friends tagged you in. If you think those pictures tagged by your friends are ugly, you can also untag yourself and it will not show on your photo pages anymore.

You can also send private message to your friends. A birthday message when you do not have their mobile number is as sweet as sending them an sms via a handphone! Whoever who receives the note from your friend can also reply and response to it.

If you happened to be surfing youtube and found a song that you love and would like to share with your friends, what can you do? You can click on the SHARE button shown above and share it with your loved ones in FACEBOOK too!

After clicking SHARE, it will then appear on your wall where friends and family could simply click on it to listen or to view the videos. They can also comment or like the links that you shared.


How about business opportunities?

People also create FACEBOOK account to promote their blogshops.

There are also links at the right side of the page to show us certain upcoming events that we could anticipate for.

Not only those shown above, one can also use the instant chat in FACEBOOK just like using an msn chat with their friends. There are just too many other interesting stuffs that one can do with FACEBOOK and this is why it has become so popular till date!

How great and awesome is FACEBOOK isn't it?

FRIENDSTER

Ever heard of the social networking site call FRIENDSTER? FRIENDSTER was founded during 2002 and it has over 115million registered users up till date with over 19millions visitors each month. Before the birth of FACEBOOK, FRIENDSTER used to be one of the most popular social networking sites where people come together reunite with their long lost friends. Over the years, FRIENDSTER had improved greatly even though there was a sudden drop in the number of people using it since the birth of FACEBOOK. Let's take a look at some of the things we can do in FRIENDSTER as well as the similarities and differences between the FACEBOOK and the FRIENDSTER.

FRIENDSTER, just like facebook, allows users to post comments on their friends' pages. However, there is no way one can comment on each other's postings unless they create and post a new comment on their friend's page. In that way, things will get messy and everyone will be confused on whose postings are replying to which postings.





FRIENDSTER also allows users to upload photos. In the past, users were not able to post comments but over the years, new amendments were made and now, we are able to do so!

Games from FRIENDSTER and facebook indeed defers. Personally, I think the games in facebook are more enticing and addictive as compare to Friendster's. Just like comments for photographs, in the past, friendster does not have games for users to play too!

As mentioned earlier, facebook allows users to share songs from youtube. However, friendster does not support this function. 

The difference between facebook and friendster could be seen above. Even though they are quite similar in many ways, they differ in many ways too! The reason why many people shifted from facebook to friendster is solely for the fact that facebook indeed offer much more varieties of interesting tools that captures the  heart of users. Friendster on the other hand has been trying to improve over the years however, there are still many areas that were not provided such as not allowing users to share almost everything possible from the world wide web, not being able for users to comment on people's postings as well as not allowing users to have an instant messenger where they can chat with their friends. Their games do not look as interesting too!

Business

I believe certain social networking sites are useful for business opportunities and facebook is definitely one of them, for now. How do we determine if they are useful? More and more people are migrating into the social networking sites during the past few years till date. It has become one's habit(to most of us) to click on facebook daily to check on our friend's current activities, to play games or even just to load facebook for the sake of loading it because it has become part of our lives.

Since many people are in social networking sites these days, we can be sure to say that business opportunities will be more skewed towards the positive side rather than the negative side. To have a good business, the traffic for the social networking site must be high so that even if not everyone hears about such business, at least 10% of the users will come to know about it and hopefully 1% of it will buy the products. If in the first place the traffic for the site is low, we can predict that the business will not do well either. Therefore, it is very important for investors to choose the right social networking sites to invest in.

On the other hand, I feel that social networking sites are hard to last long because new social networking sites will be created and launched. If the current ones are not as good as the new ones, they will very soon be neglected and people will all flock over to the new ones instead. In that way, business will surely suffer. Therefore, I conclude that it is fine to start a business that is not permanent on social networking sites. Such examples are the different blogshops. Traditional ways of advertising via brochure, television programmes, cinema advertisements, magazines as well as newspapers are still the most secure business strategy.