Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.
Reaction:For me it is like in friendster,you are communicating other people and you can find a friends.you are free to send a message and greet.You'll become updated about the life of your friends.
MySpace is a social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA,[1] where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; which is owned by News Corporation, which has its headquarters in New York City. In June 2006, MySpace was the most popular social networking site in the United States.[2] According to comScore, MySpace was overtaken internationally by main competitor Facebook in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors.[3][4] The company employs 300 staff[5] and does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. The 100 millionth account was created on August 6, 2006[6] in the Netherlands[7] and the site counted approximately 106 million accounts on September 8, 2006,[8]
Reaction:MySpace has redesigned many of the features of its site in both layout and in function. One of the first functions to be redesigned was the user home page, and new features such as status updates, applications, and subscriptions were added to catch up with Facebook's cutting-edge elements. In 2008, the MySpace homepage was redesigned into a simpler and friendlier layout, and more aesthetically pleasing to the eye as well. MySpace Music was recreated in fall of 2008 along with an updated version of the MySpace profile. More updates might take places in 2009 to create a completely upgraded MySpace.com for the next decade.
SixDegrees.com was a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001 and was based on the Web of Contacts model of social networking. It was named after the six degrees of separation concept and allowed users to list friends, family members and acquaintances both on the site and externally; external contacts were invited to join the site. Users could send messages and post bulletin board items to people in their first, second, and third degrees, and see their connection to any other user on the site. It was one of the first manifestations of a social networking websites in the format now seen today. Six Degrees was followed by more successful social networking sites based on the "Social-circles network model" such as Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, XING and Facebook.
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People who confirmed a relationship with an existing user but did not go on to register with the site continued to receive occasional email updates and solicitations.
MacroView (later renamed to SixDegrees), the company that developed the site, was founded by CEO Andrew Weinreich and was based in New York City. At its height, SixDegrees had around 100 employees, and the site had around 1,000,000 fully-registered members. The site was bought by YouthStream Media Networks in 2000 for US$125 million. SixDegrees builds on the popularity of the "small world phenomenon" to create a charitable social network and inspire giving to charities online. Bacon started the network with celebrities who are highlighting their favorite charities.
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