Facebook is a social networking site with over 600 million users worldwide and it is by far the most used social networking site. Anyone can sign up for a free account, however minimum age to use Facebook is 13 years old. Social networking sites lets users add and make friends, share photos, chat to other users that they have added as friends and they let users have their own personal profile. There are different types of social networking sites, ones that reunite people, such as www.friendsreunited.co.uk/ and ones that make communicating with friends easy; such as www.facebook.com/, but they all server the same purpose; to connect people.
Similar Facebook sites includes, Twitter, Bebo and Myspace. Twitter is a social networking and blogging site, which lets users make text like posts called tweets about anything, from what they are thinking to what they are doing. Instead of having to add and accept friends you actually know, people subscribe to you and you subscribe to other users, like they do on Youtube, and when people subscribe to you they become your follower and they will be updated with your tweets every time you tweet something. Additionally unlikely Facebook there is no age restriction, so anyone is welcomed to use it. Bebo is very similar to Facebook, however you get to add widget to your personal page unlike Facebook. The minimum age to sign up is 13 years old and most people who use Bebo are teenagers. Myspace yet again is very similar to Facebook, however the most interesting thing about Myspace is that it has profiles made for musicians, so that they can share there music and to sell via the SNOCAP application. Most musicians who use Myspace are either unsigned or unpopular and are waiting to be discovered and some famous examples of people who used Myspace to get into the music industry include Lilly Allen and Sean Kingston. The minimum age to sign up is 13 years old.
Similar Facebook sites includes, Twitter, Bebo and Myspace. Twitter is a social networking and blogging site, which lets users make text like posts called tweets about anything, from what they are thinking to what they are doing. Instead of having to add and accept friends you actually know, people subscribe to you and you subscribe to other users, like they do on Youtube, and when people subscribe to you they become your follower and they will be updated with your tweets every time you tweet something. Additionally unlikely Facebook there is no age restriction, so anyone is welcomed to use it. Bebo is very similar to Facebook, however you get to add widget to your personal page unlike Facebook. The minimum age to sign up is 13 years old and most people who use Bebo are teenagers. Myspace yet again is very similar to Facebook, however the most interesting thing about Myspace is that it has profiles made for musicians, so that they can share there music and to sell via the SNOCAP application. Most musicians who use Myspace are either unsigned or unpopular and are waiting to be discovered and some famous examples of people who used Myspace to get into the music industry include Lilly Allen and Sean Kingston. The minimum age to sign up is 13 years old.
