Social network applications

All of the social networks offer applications to enhance the online experience. I must say of the three social networks (myspace, facebook, and bebo) facebook users appear to make more use of the applications. I expected to see among the youth on myspace more usage of special applications. My sons and their friends make good use of the music applications and the instant messaging applications. This was the same for the other myspace sites I viewed.

Since I had created profiles on all three sites, I decided to see how easy it was to create or implement various applications. All of the social sites have a search or explore feature where the user can search for interests, groups, quizzes, and countless mindless applications. On myspace and bebo, where I do not have many applications or many friends with applications, it was a little more time consuming to search for applications. On facebook, so many friends, with so many different applications - it makes shopping for applications a snap. When you visit your friends social pages and find an application you like, you just click and request to add the application. Very easy and I must confess some of the applications are very addictive. I will try to work up a list of some of the most common applications. I will then focus primary on the applications on facebook. After beginning this project, I am finding how time consuming creating the sites are. It is more than creating the site, it is very time consuming to use and play on the sites. I will go into details tomorrow.