Social Networking Sites

Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and hi5 are all social networking websites that were pretty popular at some point. Obviously the reigning king and queen are Facebook and Twitter. But they all did have their distinctive feel. I at one point did have an account on each; (The only active one I use now is Facebook). hi5 was never popular in the US, but in other countries, particularly Latin America, it was pretty extensive. hi5 allowed for complete HTML customization similar to Myspace, another popular website, until Facebook destroyed it. hi5 and Myspace were praised for the customization that you can place into your profiles. But at some point, all the widgets and apps, and the annoying song that would play, seemed just too much. In my opinion Facebook did a great job keeping the layout standard forcing its users to be more creative to show uniqueness. Twitter became a phenomenon because it's simple and so fast. You can let the world know you have socks on in less than 10 seconds.