Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Facebook Overtaking MySpace
The most popular social networks, MySpace and Facebook, continue to grow offering its users an online relationship. As Dion Hinchcliffe describes in his article, “Facebook set to overtake MySpace,” Facebook is clearly advancing rapidly over MySpace and could soon overtake it. This due to Facebook opening a greater online community and being a platform to anyone that has an application concept they’d like to try. Beyond this, Facebook is also a social network site that offers its users a more mature and functional social environment.
In addition, another measure where Facebook tries to compete with MySpace and overrun it is by introducing the involvement of businesses. Hinchcliffe says,
“I’ve also begun anecdotally hearing how departments in some large organizations are recommending that employees create Facebook profiles.”
This is done to offer better ways to maintain business contacts and the ability for businesses to create social networking platforms to achieve their business goals. Facebook has become another place where employees could dialogue apart from that of the work space. Allowing companies to create their own Facebook applications has opened a new level of integration across the business web. As a result in 2007 Hinchcliff states that,
Since 2007 Facebook has been emerging as a leader in social networking providing sophistication to its users and the notion of creating a business sphere between employees and employers. I believe that Facebook has maintained that maturity that its users seek and has formed a different vibe than that of MySpace. Facebook has also been a site where it has sustained fun like introducing the "Funwall" where its users can draw pictures but, not have to be overwhelmed with backgrounds, sounds, and glamour. This certainly differentiates Facebook from MySpace, where simplicity is nowhere to be found and what its users are compelled to do is create a chaotic page.
In addition, another measure where Facebook tries to compete with MySpace and overrun it is by introducing the involvement of businesses. Hinchcliffe says,
“I’ve also begun anecdotally hearing how departments in some large organizations are recommending that employees create Facebook profiles.”
This is done to offer better ways to maintain business contacts and the ability for businesses to create social networking platforms to achieve their business goals. Facebook has become another place where employees could dialogue apart from that of the work space. Allowing companies to create their own Facebook applications has opened a new level of integration across the business web. As a result in 2007 Hinchcliff states that,
“Over 5,100 apps have been developed”varying from games, education, productivity software, to education. Of those apps about 227 were of the business category including sites such as Zoho, eBay, Blue Nile, and Jobster that offer integration with their home sites and data.
Since 2007 Facebook has been emerging as a leader in social networking providing sophistication to its users and the notion of creating a business sphere between employees and employers. I believe that Facebook has maintained that maturity that its users seek and has formed a different vibe than that of MySpace. Facebook has also been a site where it has sustained fun like introducing the "Funwall" where its users can draw pictures but, not have to be overwhelmed with backgrounds, sounds, and glamour. This certainly differentiates Facebook from MySpace, where simplicity is nowhere to be found and what its users are compelled to do is create a chaotic page.
