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 David King on September 21, 2009 at 9:25am: true, quite true..; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tan Aik Sam on September 21, 2009 at 9:28am: for me facebook is the best.. but then there is no privacy in the share publish area...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David King on September 21, 2009 at 9:30am: I think you'll find there really is.
Facebook is completely the best when it comes to privacy, you can COMPLETELY customise who sees what, every aspect of your profile, and if you don't believe so, test me :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tan Aik Sam on September 21, 2009 at 9:33am: ok... ya but then if i write on people wall.. it will appear suddenly on my home profile... then everybody can read the news feeeddd; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David King on September 21, 2009 at 9:35am: http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=feeds
top box, simple.. untick it and nothing you post on anyone else's wall will be viewable from the news feed ;'D; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David King on September 21, 2009 at 9:39am: and another good feature is if you want to see how someone views your profile.. use this..
http://www.facebook.com/privacy/yourusername?viewas=otherpersonsusernamenumber

you can get to it from..
http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=profile&tab=contact
at the top of the page (search a name in the box at the top)

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Permalink Reply by Tan Aik Sam on September 21, 2009 at 11:27am: davey,
ya thanks davey.. untick all of it then
the show to wall post is better to untick it :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bree Brasco on September 21, 2009 at 10:02am: I like twitter the best. Its fun to see what people have to say but not feel obligated to have to take a bunch of quizzes. Also when something happens you get to hear everyones take on it all at once. Its fun to see so many people all riled up about things running off at the mouth all at the same time and Twitter doesn't tell on you, letting people know when you are online so you feel obligated to respond if someone has responded to a particular 'tweet.' I do hate that it is called 'tweeting' though.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ali Green on September 21, 2009 at 10:17am: Well put indeed I totally agree.

I still don't get Facebook.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by The 64-bit geek on September 21, 2009 at 4:58pm: I never used MySpace.
I had a Facebook account but I got so bored of it so I deleted it.
I didn´t have any use for it.
Same thing with Twitter. Got bored of it and I had no use for it.
Those sites didn´t give anything.
I´m back to the forums again and that gives me more than Twitts and stuff.
I´m just the old fasion "SMS/MMS, mail, forum and phone call" type of man.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David King on September 22, 2009 at 10:40am: I guess everyone has their needs and its up to you which site provides them best :); ▶ Reply to This