The Social Revolution: Myspace Vs. Facebook

Myspace Is one of the most popular social networking sites today. It is available to anyone thirteen and older and will not cost you a dime! With over 253,000,000 registered users it is easy to say that Myspace is the most used social networking site around. Myspace's biggest competitor is another networking site called Facebook.

Facebook has over 200,000,000 registered members; and with those numbers Facebook may one day become the dominant site. So what makes it possible for both Myspace and Facebook to be completely free to their users? How can they do this? The answer is that they are payed by their advertisers. Buisness men and women who will pay lots of money to have their ads shown on high traffic websites like this.

Myspace was first launched in 2003 and was founded by two men, Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe. When someone first opens a Myspace account the first friend that appears in their friend space is Tom Anderson. For that reason, Tom has become more widely associated with founding the site. Facebook on the other hand Is considered to be founded by a man named Mark Zuckerberg, with the help of two of his college roommates named Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. In the beginning Facebook was restricted for only Harvard University Students. But now Facebook like Myspace is available to anyone thirteen years of age or older.

So which Social Networking site is for you? It may not be either of these two there are plenty of social networking sites and there will probably be more to come. We are in the middle of a social revolution we have gone from talking on the phone to texting, and from hanging out with our friends to chatting with them in cyberspace. Everything is moving towards computers, people turn to computers for more and more things these days and the way we've always done things is changing right before our very eyes. The time to get involved is now. This is our future.