Social Networking Sites

Currently, the most popular social networking site is Facebook.  Before Facebook became a social networking giant,  many were on Myspace.  I personally had a Myspace as well.  As a social networking site, it did well in keeping up with friends and being able to view their own unique profiles.  Myspace did a great job letting users create their own layouts using HTML coding.  This is one feature that Facebook lacks.  Each Facebook profile looks almost identical with the blue and white layout.  The new introduction of their "timeline" layout does improve on this letting users post a picture as a banner for their page.  Myspace lost my interest because it became infested with ads.  The ads were so overwhelming that it drove away many users.  Facebook capitalizes in this area with ad free (almost) social networking.  Twitter is another great social networking site with little advertising.  In my eyes twitter will always be just a "status update".  Without the other features that myspace and Facebook has, Twitter has become extremely popular because of it's simplicity.  As the widgets continue to grow on Twitter these one line "status updates" are become more and more dynamic.  One social networking site that isn't all that popular is BlogTV.  This site allows you to host your own free live video blog and other come into your chatroom and you can have interactions with them.  I think live video feed is a great idea but BlogTV won't ever be as big as Facebook will be.  It would be extremely interesting if Facebook adds a feature for live video streaming letting users who visit your page watch, and interact with you.