Question: Discuss differences and similarities of two social networks: Friendster and Facebook. Which one is your preference and why?
What is Friendster and Facebook? Both Friendster and Facebook are social networking websites. We can make new friends through these websites. People from different places and regions around the world can share their thought and thinking by using these two social networking websites. By posting their thought on their profile, they can share their ideas directly with many people around the world. People around the world can also reply their own views by posting comments under the post. Friendster and Facebook bring advantage to us as we can contact with our old friends again. That means through Friendster and Facebook, we will not lost contact with our old friends. We can know the latest information about our friends and family members even though our friends and family members are at the other places far from us. We can make new friends from different countries too through Friendster and Facebook.
Although Friendster and Facebook both have the same function, there are differences too between these two websites. As compared to Friendster, Facebook has many online applications such as online games. Users will not easily get bored when they play Facebook because Facebook has various types of interesting online games to play. Besides, Facebook also provided a chat room for users to chat. Users can chat with their friends directly in Facebook. Facebook also provided a “Tagging System” which allowed users to share photos as well as videos with their friends.
I prefer Facebook because Facebook is commonly used among my friends if compared to Frienster. Almost all my family members, friends, former classmates and schoolmates are playing Facebook. I can easily contact and communicate with them through Facebook. Besides, I will not get boring playing Facebook because Facebook has many online applications such as online game. Some of the famous online games in Facebook are Barnbuddy, Farmville, Cafe World, Petville and Happy Aquarium. These online games are very fun and interesting. I can chat with my friends through Facebook too. Facebook provided a chat room and I can chat with my friends anytime as long as they are online. I don’t have to sign in to my MSN or Yahoo Messenger if I want to chat with my friends. I can directly chat with my friends through Facebook chat room. I can also upload and tag many photos through Facebook. Facebook provided a “Tagging System” which allowed me to share my photos and videos with my friends. By tagging my friends in the photo, my friends can also have the same photos as me in their photo album at Facebook. That means, I can save lots of time because with “Tagging System”, I can share photos with my friends in the fastest way and I don’t have to e-mail them the photos one by one to them. Facebook has lots of well advanced technologies that bring convenience to me and that is why I prefer Facebook the most.
