Social Networking Sites

I started off using Social Networking Sites when I was in high school. Back then, the coolest site was Xanga, which is pretty much like this site, its a place blogging site. It was a cool site to me back then because to me and my friends, it was known as the online diary where we would blog about our day to day events and just comment on each others blogs. Then it became fancy where we could add pictures and change layouts, and there were even separate sites to create special Xanga layout, so it was a big popular site back then. Eventually, after a year or two Myspace came along and took over the limelight.

I started using Myspace when I was in high school and it was the biggest thing back in 2006. Myspace also had the special layouts you can create, you could write small blogs,put your top friends and list them one to ten. And what seemed really cool back then was right under your profile picture, you could even write a small status, not like the one that's on Facebook, but more like something that described you. Eventually, they even had a program that would tell you who was checking your page the most, and then eventually they came up with the privacy settings which allowed people to block unknown creepers from their pages.

Eventually a friend introduced me to Facebook and I started using Facebook in 2007 which was only for college students back then. I didn't really like Facebook much in the beginning because it seemed boring at first. There wasn't really much to do. But by 2008, they started to add in a lot of new features such as the status updates and the ways you can comment and tag people. At one point, Facebook began taking over I think practically everyone life. The whole like only amplified people more to go on Facebook and its amazing how Facebook has changed the way people view media. I mean its amazing that even employers search for candidates on Facebook. The one thing I wish they would focus more on is their privacy settings.

Twitter, I never really used or liked. I know that many of my friends are undecided about this one do to its limitations. I know that a lot of celebrities like using it though. Right now, I'm using it for my CIS class but who knows, maybe I will get accustomed to tweeting and stick to it.