Sharing…what you post on BLOG!!

In the 1990s people connected through online chat rooms and belonged to communities. From that came Instant Messaging, which allowed people to talk privately one-on-one by typing messages to each other over the Internet. Eventually people began to connect on the Internet by creating online profiles on sites like MySpace and Facebook. Also, People began “blogging” that posting online diaries on sites like “Mini-blog” such as Xanga, or Twitter (Twitter is the earliest famous blogger in US) or “Micro Bolg” such as 新浪微博 (which launched at Aug 2009).

Useful of Blogging
Blogging gives people a chance to keep an online diary, it is public! People may start share photos, pictures and topic-specific on blogs, such as opinion of TV program, travel stories…Ever want to write your own column, or have something to say and want others to read it.
There are several ways blogs can be used, for example, some people use blogs as online journals or devoted to specific themes of interest.

Ref:
1) Twitter http://twitter.com/
2) 新浪微博 http://t.sina.com.cn/
3) Xanga http://hk.xanga.com/
4) http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/question?qid=7010050400812

5) http://www.four-h.purdue.edu/ncrvf/documents/TechandSocialNetworkLessonPlan.doc
6) http://hk.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A8tU3wfUtzBMGgsAWo_wzAt.;_ylu=X3oDMTBydHBna29zBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2hraQR2dGlkAw--/SIG=1266g1bmp/EXP=1278347604/**http://sidekick.myblog.hk/archives/2010/03/09/1633

Comparison of Facebook and MySpace

The reasons why to compare the two social networking sites, Facebook and MySpace because they have both similarities and differences. Both sites are very popular, with millions of members and also attract the same segmentation of primarily 18 to 30 years old.

History
Facebook - Facebook is the most popular social networking website nowadays, and it launched in February 2004 and operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add people as friends, send messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.
MySpace – MySpace have been became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006, however the major competitor Facebook.have instead it’s first of Networking Website.

Level of customization.
Facebook - Only allows plain text.
MySpace - Allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Levels of privacy concern.
Facebook - Members expressed significantly greater trust in both Facebook and its members, and were more willing to share identifying information.
MySpace - Members reported significantly more experience using the site to meet new people.

Frequency and type of use
No significant differences were found between Facebook and MySpace for frequency or type of use.
55% of Facebook members and 60% of MySpace members access the site every day.

82% of Facebook members report updating their profile “once in a while,” as do 72% of MySpace members.

Reference:
http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?q=facebook&hl=zh-TW&lr
Facebook:
1) http://www.facebook.com/
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
3) http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117979349/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

MySpace:
1) http://www.myspace.com/
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace