I decided to focus my attention this time to some of the sites you mentioned in class. I’ve had a del.i.cious account for a little while now, although if you asked me how to use it I really wouldn’t know what to tell you! My husband made me get one but I guess I failed to initiate a tutorial. I also decided to look at twitter.com and fark.com just to see what these websites were about. I wanted to see the similarities and differences to the major social networks like Facebook and Myspace, and see what these other types of sites had to offer.

First of all, Twitter is really quite a simple idea, but it really works great! I was surprised when I realized that all it did was update your status. When I first became a Facebook member back in 2005, they didn’t have that feature immediately, but they soon added it so people could constantly show what they were doing. Myspace just recently added that feature about a year ago, and so it’s fairly new. When I looked at the About Us section of Twitter, it said it was created in 2006, so it somewhat made me wonder if it was a spin-off of the popular feature on Facebook. When Facebook first started doing their Friend Feed, I remember a lot of users getting upset because it basically would moniter and broadcast every little thing you did. Now, people enjoy it so much, that even Myspace got on the bandwagon and began to do it as well.

I think it’s so interesting how there are all these sites dedicated and created to share with others our updates of what we think is cool, what we are interested in, and what we are doing. Del.i.cious does that by letting us bookmark certain webpages that we are find interesting, Myspace and Facebook do it by letting us share our interests and lives with our friends, and Twitter does it by letting us share with others what we are doing at any given moment. It’s an interesting and thought-provoking age we have entered into where everything we do now can be shared on the internet by these sites!