Of all three sites, I find Facebook the winner in nearly all categories, general cleanliness, ease of use, and functionality. Coming in dead last is MySpace. Perhaps I'm a little bias because long standing opinion of the site, but visiting the site again has done little to change my previously entrenched opinion. What mySpace reminds me of is Sconex, a site that is still in existence, but
has well passed maturity. What struck me first was the list of possible friends that mySpace gave me, what became immediately obvious was nearly every single one of the "shown possible friends" were female, with only 1 or 2 of a number count of 500 being male. Now I don't particular mind this, especially because I'm male, but it does well to show the blatant bias in what mySpace chooses to display. Another issue is the sites otherwise lack of professionalism, I’m not saying that all sites have to be a Linkedin but rather, all sites should still possess some form of professionalism, bare minimum in the names of subscribers. Seeing constant names that were more $$$ MONEY aka DA JIGGY $$$, than actual names was a major turn off, Facebook, Twitter and Friendster to my knowledge almost never allow names of that sort. I found Friendster and Google Buzz (the fourth social networking site I picked) rather bland, sporting interfaces like twitter, and in some respects very scaled down versions of Facebook, if Friendster is a scaled down Facebook, with a far smaller subscriber number, is there much incentive to sign up for Friendster? Not really.
I'd have to trove extra deep to find uniqueness to Friendster or Google Buzz. Buzz additionally allowed me to Buzz through Twitter, which threw the chances that I'd actually visit the Buzz site into oblivion. Controlling Buzz through twitter is a far simpler approach. Lastly, though Facebook on occasion tends to provide you with TOO much information, the information importance on the whole was far higher than other sites, especially MySpace. Facebook strikes me as a highly flexible site, one that can both bend forwards for Social Networking interactions and just as easily bend backwards for Professional Networking such as groups and fan pages. At the end of the day, a hybrid strikes me as the best way to go, especially when in this day and age your options are nearly endless, and Facebook helps sort it all out for you.
has well passed maturity. What struck me first was the list of possible friends that mySpace gave me, what became immediately obvious was nearly every single one of the "shown possible friends" were female, with only 1 or 2 of a number count of 500 being male. Now I don't particular mind this, especially because I'm male, but it does well to show the blatant bias in what mySpace chooses to display. Another issue is the sites otherwise lack of professionalism, I’m not saying that all sites have to be a Linkedin but rather, all sites should still possess some form of professionalism, bare minimum in the names of subscribers. Seeing constant names that were more $$$ MONEY aka DA JIGGY $$$, than actual names was a major turn off, Facebook, Twitter and Friendster to my knowledge almost never allow names of that sort. I found Friendster and Google Buzz (the fourth social networking site I picked) rather bland, sporting interfaces like twitter, and in some respects very scaled down versions of Facebook, if Friendster is a scaled down Facebook, with a far smaller subscriber number, is there much incentive to sign up for Friendster? Not really. 
I'd have to trove extra deep to find uniqueness to Friendster or Google Buzz. Buzz additionally allowed me to Buzz through Twitter, which threw the chances that I'd actually visit the Buzz site into oblivion. Controlling Buzz through twitter is a far simpler approach. Lastly, though Facebook on occasion tends to provide you with TOO much information, the information importance on the whole was far higher than other sites, especially MySpace. Facebook strikes me as a highly flexible site, one that can both bend forwards for Social Networking interactions and just as easily bend backwards for Professional Networking such as groups and fan pages. At the end of the day, a hybrid strikes me as the best way to go, especially when in this day and age your options are nearly endless, and Facebook helps sort it all out for you.
