I think its important to express that you can get general and specific social networking groups. personally i have more use for general social networks however after some research i also have a knowledge about specific networks too.
Amie Street is an alternative online music store and social network service created in 2006 byBrown University seniors Elliott Breece, Elias Roman and Joshua Boltuch. Users have a individual customizable account where they add other users. comments can then be posted onto each users 'space' freely. There is also a "fan" feature so users can easily connect with bands on the site. Artist can upload their own musicdirectly to there site as an mp3. As the users buy the songs the artists get credited. Amie Street is simply decorated - and slightly simuliar to facebook in the use of colours - white and blue. the layout is easy to follow, from left to right, well indicated links to different pages etc.
Broadcaster is a video entertainment community and live webcam social networks . The site allows users to create personal profiles, post pictures, upload videos, and chat with the site's other users through a live webcam chat feature. Broadcaster is often refered to as an 'alternative media'.
General
Facebook is one of the most popular general social networking websites at the moment. This is a website i use daily. A personal account is set up easily by entering basic information about yourself, e.g. email address, age, create a password. Once your account is set up you can add photographs, videos a little like Broadcaster, but not live videos. Users can also add applications. A few applications i personally use on my facebook account is 'pet society'. this allows you to create a pet, feed it, look after it, complete races againt other pet etc. some other avalible applications are 'what colour are you?', 'super pokes', 'top friends', 'sticky labels', 'bumper stickers' and so on. Facebook also provides the users with private chat. you dont just have to post messages on 'the wall' because as long your your friends are also online at the time you can instantly chat.
Myspace and Bebo are also social networks that i have personaly been a member of. They work in the same way as Facebook by having personal accounts and the creativity of being able to upload pictures etc. adding friends and family members is the high idea of these social networks so people can keep in touch from afar and near. Myspace is well known getting unsigned bands noticed. Users create not an individual account but a band account. they add pictures, links to www.youtube.com of videos of the band, and their music. there music can be downloaded and added to profiles.
A good thing about all these social networks is that they are monitored. if any user feels that unappropriete footage, images or comments are being used this can be reported to the administraters and delt with.
the manipulation of personal identiy is not really an issue on Facebook and Myspace etc. the people you are friends with online are your friends also in 'the real world' so you dont have to pretend to be someone your not. also you can pick and chose who are your friends. if you do not know someone you can reject them.
as you can see there are a lot of simularities.
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