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4/23/10 BCA

Critical Review of Facebook and MySpace

Facebook and MySpace are two of the more popular social networks that help you connect with people you know. A social networking site is a site that allows you to connect with people you know. In real life people use Facebook and MySpace all the time to connect with friends. Facebook has 350 million monthly users 175 of which use it on a daily bases. Facebook and MySpace have even made their social networking sites easier to use.

Using social networking sites makes seeing connections that you may have through friends easier. If you have a friend in the real world and his friend has a open job in the field that you work in sometimes that might get blocked so that you never know, but using social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace the connections that you have through friends become available to see. This is a major way that Social networking sites can be effective in the businesses world. For school I use my Facebook to get due dates and homework assignments from people all of the time.

Socially Facebook and MySpace can be used in the same way. If your friend has a friend on Facebook that you have things in common with you can become friends with that person. This technology is very easily to be abused. Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace can and have been used in the past by pedophiles to talk to kids.

Facebook and MySpace can be connected to using mobile phones and iPods. Most mobiles phones that have app capabilities and the I touch from Apple have free apps that allow you to contact your friends threw Facebook and MySpace from anywhere. Facebook and MySpace also have calendars so that you do not miss an important event.

In the end this technology is a very helpful tool in the business and social world despite its flaws.


Web Sites Used

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/index.html

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8

http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Facebook+Inc.