Fight of the Social Network; which is best?

Social networking is undoubtedly now a major part of all our lives, your doing it right now by reading this post. Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, Twitter.. there are easily hundreds of them out there now, but which of them do you think is the best?

I'll tell you why I believe Facebook is the best, feel free to comment.
Firstly, you will find Facebook recently announced it had hit the 300 million active users milestone, which is far ahead of any other major social networking site, making it a truly massive and global company, with users from all over the world. Facebook has, for millions of people, become the ubiquitous social networking site. The first thing you do on the computer can easily become logging into Facebook, not just once, but several times a day.

While MySpace and Bebo can easily be said to have had their day, Facebook continues to grow, and at a truly phenomenal rate, one which seems so far away from the grasp of any other social network, it can almost seem absurd to hear that someone doesn't have Facebook when you ask them in conversation. So with the such diversity, or not in some cases, between the large variety of networks there are out there now, which is the best one, and why?

Comments welcome.

Tags: fight, network, networking, social

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Permalink Reply by Johannes S. on September 20, 2009 at 8:40am: I find twitter best (if you don't count Geeks!) - very feature oriented and it just works. It's got everything I need.

Facebook has too many "cool" people. Well, cool in their own "normal" community.
MySpace has bands and retards. (no offence to mentally or physically disabled people)

And wtf is bebo? Never heard of it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David King on September 20, 2009 at 8:42am: sorry, not being faithful to geeks here ;'D
its not really mainstream though is it?
yeh I know what you mean..
ohh well that proves my point about bebo then if you've not even heard about it, ahaa.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Johannes S. on September 20, 2009 at 8:49am: Geeks isn't mainstream, but that's why I like it: it has a specific group of people on it, and 85% of them are intelligent people. The rest are bots/spammers and idiots. No offence.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David King on September 20, 2009 at 8:51am: I'd agree, not been on Geeks for an amazing amount of time but thats what I really like about it, you don't need to worry so much about people annoying you and things but seriously the bots and stuff just no, go waste your time elsewhere :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Johannes S. on September 20, 2009 at 8:54am: Yeah, some are using this site's discussions as their personal Twitter. Tan Aik Sam springs to mind.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David King on September 20, 2009 at 8:55am: mm, I know what you mean, thats whats good about twitter, it enables you to do that but even then it can get abit tedious when they do that on twitter aswell..; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Matt DeFazio on September 20, 2009 at 8:58am: Facebook for people I know IRL.

Twitter for status updates and following internet personalities and companies.

Geeks! as a hangout spot and general source of help from and interaction with fellow Geeks.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David King on September 20, 2009 at 8:58am: ^^ seconded, I find that twitter is really useful for that and facebook is more of a personal kind of network.. would explain why so many people have it I suppose.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Zune80 on September 20, 2009 at 9:52am: The one you like being on the most...simple.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David King on September 20, 2009 at 10:23am: good point :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David Beck on September 20, 2009 at 10:05am: I am liking Facebook again since they introduced Facebook Lite. Before that I would just Twitter and it would update Facebook. I hate sifting through 10 different quizzes to see what my friends are actually doing.

I don't see Geeks as being the same thing as Facebook/MySpace/Twitter. With those things, it's really about staying in touch with your friends. It would be weird to start a conversation with a compete stranger. But we are all on Geeks because we share common interests.

I don't have a whole lot of geek friends and so I can come here and talk about things that would make any of my friends just give me a blank stare.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David King on September 20, 2009 at 10:24am: Yeh me too, plus the fact it Facebook Lite runs without javascript which runs a treat through proxy at school ;'D Yeh I know what you mean, I think I'd get the same treatment, ahaa.; ▶ Reply to This