Social Networking Websites
 

Ok, so I'm just curious to see what people think about the social networking website phenomenon. Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc...

How many accounts do you have and what benefits have you seen from them?

I have a Facebook page and a LinkedIn page....:cool:

I deleted all but my facebook page.

MySpace was too much like BlackPlanet to me: cluttered, lots of spam, phishing, and hacks.

LinkedIn connects me to people I don't really want to be connected to (former employers, lol). It's also VERY hard to delete your LinkedIn profile.

Facebook is pretty much everything I need: photo sharing (no more Flickr), event invitations (no more Evites), stalking, keeping up with friends (No more Friendster). And, it's plain. I like plain.

I mainly use Facebook. Most of the people I'm friends with and associate with are from college, and most of them are on Facebook. I also have a Myspace account, but I only login if someone sends me a message.

I only use Facebook.

I just reactivated my FB account after a LONG break.

LOL! Don't you mean..."researching"?

I'm only on facebook. Myspace just looks messy. And I didn't want to be on any social website that my 13 year old nieces and nephews were on.

I feel secure with Facebook...Myspace just seems so open

I agree...Facebook has done a great job with their site. I've been on and off about 3 times in the last 4 years but now I think I'm here to stay!

LOL.....sure, that too. ;)

i'm low tech so i don't hany any of the above

I just joined LinkedIn through a close friend and I had a Black Planet page, but I just shut it down last year. I want to join Facebook, though. I was never really a MySpace type of person.

Facebook--love it!

Black Greek Yard--love this too!

Personally, I loved the classic Facebook... when only college students were allowed.. The graphical consistency of every person's page better allows for long nights and finished beers. Myspace is like the loud, obnoxious friend of Facebook, you know, that one who sings out loud all the time, and eccentrically matches everything or nothing without care. I'm on Blackplanet, but I only get love from "webspam" girls in different states who think I can only understand ebonics.

Social networking sites significantly altered my chapter's daily operations on campus. Right after crossing in 2003, marketing for an event or party meant handing out fliers on campus, downtown, after other parties, etc. We were forced to interact with everyone we saw to make sure that we packed a venue. Soon, though, it became a matter of dragging a list of names into an invite box to know where a good percentage of attendees will come from. The physical distribution of flyers and word of mouth advertising cannot and doesn't stop, but inclement weather and seasonal conditions aren't as threatening as they used to be.

Ditto LOL!