Social Networking Sites

some of my observations of social networking sites… (lot to be added n edited)

 

facebook:

iam in love with the design(layout) of facebook. it is like an entertainment tv channel with unique features of internet,

lots of applications keeps the users engaged and providing a backdrop for the people to have conversations.

some of the applications on facebook which are similar to those applications offline:

date of day/todays cookie…etc: are like   the weighing machine at railway stations.

fishtank, farmville…. : are like tamagochi ( a japanese virtual pet).

 

orkut:

unlike in facebook, orkut has a scrapbook where users talk one to one. orkut is not as dynamic as facebook. may be thats the reason its not a big success in US and a success in India where people are not much familiar with net in the initial days and now that they are familiar they started moving to facebook.

twitter:

i felt it some thing like gtalk status msg sharing with all the followers

 

indian social networking sites:

recently i opened accounts in bigadda.com, bharathstudents.com, indyarocks.com.. these are really a poor imitations of western networking sites and lots of spam in bharathstudents.com (some erotic mails).