Facebook

After many people pressuring me to sign up to Facebook, i finally agreed to join today. It’s an interesting site where people can create their own space and then add friends to their network. This allows people to share thoughts, feelings, photos, messages and many other things with their networked friends. It is common for someone to post a message on your wall, poke you, send you a drink, create picture albums and join interest groups, such as the ‘Chasers war on everything appreciation society’ group. It is a good way to find old friends or keep in contact with new ones.

One benefit of Facebook over similar applications such as MySpace, is its aesthetic appeal. In MySpace, people design their own sites so it can look messy and is hard to navigate, whereas Facebook has a set template that can be slightly rearranged. This means that you can access anyone’s site and still know where all the links will be located. One man’s thoughts on the ‘ugliness’ of MySpace can be seen in this video by zefrank.

The downside to this programme is the constant email alerts you receive, though this can be turned off. Also, to try new things such as create your own virtual garden or virtual pet, you have to download more applications which can become rather annoying.