Week 7: Social Networking

I am a certified facebook junkie – I swear I check it at least every hour and I have the facebook app downloaded to my iphone which makes it really convenient to do so, therefore the concept of Social Networking (SN) and Social Networking Sites (SNS) was not entirely new to me. Having said that I did enjoy the YouTube video “Social Networking in Plain English” and reading information on past social networking sites such as Friendster. I did have a twitter account before starting web101 that I started about 18 months ago when a friend suggested it was better then facebook. I didn’t really use this account much as it didn’t seem to be much fun with only 1 follower/followee, but I think that's because I didn’t really understand how to use it. I mostly use facebook for status updates and reading status updates as others and this micro blogging sensation is becoming very popular – as this is the core purpose of twitter I can see how it has the potential to takeover from facebook (who else hates Farmville requests etc?). Having said that I think it still has a ways to go in rising in popularity before this becomes a reality.