Content

• Introduction
• Facebook
• Friendster
• • History
History
•
• Website Websites
• Features
• Features
• Comparison
• Critism
• MySpace
• • Conclusion History
• • Referenceswebsite
•
Features
•
Critism
 Facebook, MySpace and
Friendster are social
networking websites

INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTI
ON

These websites help

Users can add friends and
people to communicate to
send them messages, and
each other. Besides, they
update their personal
are also a platform for
profiles to notify friends
people to keep in touch
about themselves
instead of using phone
 A social
networking
website that is
operated and
privately owned by
Facebook, Inc.

The website's name

stems from the
HISTORY OF colloquial name of a
FACEBOOK book given to
incoming students at
Zuckerberg's high
school

Mark Zuckerberg
founded Facebook
with his friends while
he was a student at
Harvard University
Mark Zukerberg created Facebook in his Harvard
dorm room.
 FACEBOOK WEBSITE
• http://www.facebook.com/
 The Wall, a space on
every user's profile page
that allows friends to
post messages for the
user to see
Features
Photos, where users can
upload albums and
photos
Status, which allows
users to inform their
friends of their
whereabouts and actions.
News Feed, which
appears on every user's
homepage and highlights
information including
profile changes,
upcoming events, and
birthdays of the user's
friends.
Critism of Facebook
 First local cases

The school later

unblocked Facebook
after the website In October 2005, the
rectified the situation University of New
by displaying a notice Mexico blocked access
on the login page to Facebook from its
stating the credentials campus computers and
used on the website networks
are separate from the
ones used for their
school accounts It cited a violation of the
university's Acceptable
Use Policy for abusing
computer resources as
the reason, stating the
website forces use of the
university's credentials
for activity not related to
the university
 Banned by governments
In Iran, the website
was banned because of
fears that opposition
movements were being
organized on the Due to the open
website, although nature of Facebook,
access has since been several countries
reinstated. have banned access
The Syrian to it including Syria,
government cited the China and Iran
ban was on the
premise that the
website promoted
attacks on authorities.
Facebook was also
used by Syrian citizens
to criticize the
government
INTERFACE
EVOLUTION
Facebook profile 2004-2005
Facebook profile 2006
Facebook profile 2007-now
 HISTORY OF MYSPACE
Its immediate
owner, Fox
Interactive The project was overseen
Media, which by Brad Greenspan
(eUniverse's Founder,
is owned by Chairman, CEO), who
News managed Chris DeWolfe
Corporation. (MySpace's starting
The origin of CEO), Josh Berman, Tom
Anderson (MySpace's
the starting president), and
MySpace.com a team of programmers
domain was a and resources provided
by eUniverse
site owned by
YourZ.com,
Inc.
 Myspace website
• http://www.myspace.com/
 Features
MySpace profile, which contain
mood(small emoticons that are
used to depict a mood the user
is in), Comments, Profile
customization (HTML) and
music.
Bulletins, posts that are posted
on to a "bulletin board" for
everyone on a MySpace user's
MySpaceIM, an instant friends list to see.
messenger that uses one's
MySpace account as a screen
name.

Groups feature,which allows a

group of users to share a common
page and message board.
Criticism of Myspace
 MySpace party problems

MySpace is often used as

a venue for publicizing
parties, sometimes with
the host's knowledge and
sometimes without

There have been some well-

publicized incidents where
MySpace parties have caused
thousands of dollars damage
to property, and even (in at
least one case) loss of life
Profile layout
Friendster has over 90
million registered Friendster is a
users and over 61 privately owned
million unique visitors social networking
a month globally website

History

Friendster was
founded by computer
programmer
Jonathan Abrams in
2002 in Mountain
View, California
 Friendster website
• http://www.friendster.com/
Fan Profiles,encompass
over 40 different types of
"entities" – including
artists, celebrities,
models, musicians and Friendster Mobile and
organizations Friendster Text Alerts,
free for users from any web-
enabled mobile device and is
available globally. Available
in several languages in
addition to English
Features (Indonesian, Malay, Korean,
Simplified Chinese and
Traditional Chinese)

Languages, include
Tagalog, Thai, Malay,
Vietnamese, Indonesian,
Chinese(both Traditional
and Simplified), Japanese,
Korean, and Spanish
Friendster
Friendster
Profile layout
COMPARISONS
 Facebook, Inc.
Type Private
Founded Cambridge, Massachusetts
(February 4, 2004)
Headquarters Palo Alto, California
Dublin, Ireland (international headquarters for Europe, Africa,
Middle East)
Key people Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO
Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder
Sheryl Sandberg, COO
Matt Cohler, VP of Product Management
Chris Hughes, Co-founder

Revenue ▲ 300 million USD (2008 est.)

Employees 700 (November 2008)
Website www.facebook.com
Type of site Social network service
Advertising Banner ads, referral marketing
Registration Required
Launched February 2004
 MySpace
Type Subsidiary
Founded 2003
Headquarters Beverly Hills, California, USA
Key people Tom Anderson, President
Owen Van Natta, CEO
Mike Jones, COO
Jason Hirschhorn, CPO
Owner Fox Interactive Media
Employees 1000
Slogan A Place for Friends
Website www.myspace.com
Type of site Social network service
Advertising Google
Registration Required
Launched August 2003
Current status Active
 Friendster, Inc.
Type Private
Founded 2002
Headquarters Sydney, Australia
Key people Richard B. Kimber, Chief Executive Officer
Chander Sarna, Senior Vice President of Engineering & Operations
David Jones, Vice President of Global Marketing Aaron Barnes,
Vice President of Global Sales & Business Development
Friendster Team

Website http://www.friendster.com
Alexa rank 64 (June 8, 2009)
Type of site Social network service
Advertising Banner ads, Contextual ads, Sponsorships
Registration optional
Launched March 22, 2002
Current status active
 Conclusion
• The usage of Facebook, MySpace and
Friendster are similar.
• We may use each of the website as
what we like most.
• With the comparison, we hope that we
as the users may choose the right
website.
• Remember!!! Learn widely! Use wisely!
 References
• http://en.wikipedia.org/
• Gary B.Shelly,ShellyVermaat & co.,
Discovering Computing 2010; 2008,
Shelly Cashman Series.
The End