Sunday, February 14, 2010

Why Facebook is more popular compare to other social networking sites?

Nowadays, there are a lot of social networking sites around the world such as Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Geni and so on. These sites can allow people to communicate with each other in different place or country. However, among those sites there is one site which more popular than other sites which is Facebook.

Recently, Facebook is the fastest growing social networking site. Its users tend to come from students. Most of college students choose Facebook as their social networking site. Those social networking sites such as MySpace, Friendster and Geni most likely same with but there are several different applications. One of the different applications is online appearance. Facebook have this application where users able to know whether their follower or friend currently online or not. It contrasts with MySpace, Friendster and Geni where those social networking sites do not have application to notice the users currently online or not.

Moreover, real time communication is one of the major strengths
of using Facebook. This application allow users to chatting in real time with other users when both of them currently online. Besides that, clean layout and simplifying of the profile page is another advantages of the new look Facebook. This will allow users immediately have access to their wall or new feed when they click on a friend’s profile. Users also can quickly see what they have been up to recently and respond back by send message directly.

Using Facebook users can integration of wall and mini feed their account. Facebook have integrated the wall and the mini feed into one aggregated feed. This major prominence is because Facebook has always been designed to focus on creating and maintaining real relationships and building a sense of community. This can quickly able to notice what other users or friends doing. Users can edit their privacy setting to make sure what they really want to display on their profile.

The function of tabbed browsing is strength of Facebook where the profile has been divided up into tabs so that all of user’s personal information in one place and applications on one tab now called boxes. This has been a huge benefit for many users and the platform seems to be running a lot faster than it before. Besides that, users can easily in making share even in Facebook. This is because Facebook has made the sharing of videos and photos even easier with one dedicated tab and a host of new features to play around with.

Lastly, Facebook has upgraded on status updates which users can updating their status and post the link to their profile by using mobile. Users will get the message if their friends post something on their status. These make users easier to get noticed and can quickly reply through mobile.

In conclusion, Facebook is more comfortable for people to communicate with other people whether in the same place or not. All of those advantages show why Facebook is more popular compare to other social networking sites.

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