Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Task #13 and Task #14 - MySpace and Facebook

Oh Social Networking - definitely a topic that most of us are now accustomed, I think it would be more difficult to find someone these days that do NOT have a FB account.

Just out of high school - 9 or so years ago - MySpace was all the rage and you were not somebody if you did not have a MySpace Page. I remember spending hour after hour making the page pretty and attractive using Myspace HTML codes found on the internet - pimp my space if I remember rightly. Was a great place to share photos and let people know how your life was going. It seemed to keep everyone from high school keep in touch, even if you didn;t really want to know what was happening in most of their lives.

FB then quickly took over from MySpace with more user friendly gadgets. With the invention of Iphones with a FB application, made it even easier to connect FB with everyone anywhere you are. Not only is Facebook a place to keep in contact, share thought and photos instantly but also a place where you can be kept in the loop with different things, for example my surf club uses it to inform members of training sessions, events coming up etc. I also know of friends who have used it to start up an online business. A very versatile web tool.

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