Checking Out Some Social Networking Sites

At this day and age social networking websites are everywhere. Most people I know and I have contact with know or have a profile in either Facebook, Myspace, Friendster among many others including Orkut.
Facebook is the most popular now. It was created mainly for college students but it has grown to many more older people. Today the group age in which is the most growing it is women over 50 years old. Facebook hooks you with many applications and groups. Facebook also has a feed on the home page where you can see what your friends are doing. Facebook has a status that works similar to Twitter, some people upload them daily or at least weekly.
Myspace is very music oriented, from the music list in your profile to the millions of bands that you can "Add as Friend." A very nice feature in Myspce is that you can change the layout in your profile to match your personality. Myspace also has a feed feature that shows changes in status and changes is the profiles of your friends. You can also post YouTube videos in your profile. The draw back is that your profile is public even to people who are not on Myspace.
Friendster is a little less popular than Facebook and Myspace but it is also one of the main social networking websites in the market today. It is a very dry in the layout and the color scheme is very pale. There is many applications you can add to your profile, including one that you can display your avatar. There are groups that you can join. Friendster also features a "I'm a fan of..." tab where you can select things you like and talk with people that have the same interest as you in that subject.
Another social networking website is Orkut. This one is powered by Google and it is very common in Brazil. The main feature that differentiates Orkut is that friends can leave you testimonies about you on your page and that stays right in the front for everyone to see.People can also rate you on three categories: cool, trustworthy and sexy. You can also post video and pictures and similar to many other website you can tag pictures of your friends.
In general, social networking websites are very good for people to find old classmates, long lost friends, black mail your friends when tagging funny pictures of them, applications that make you spend hours to find out "What Friends character you are?" and for most of the population it is very entertaining. In a other way they can expose many facets of a person that work related people might not want to see when hiring new employees.
With every good there is always some bad.