Social Networking Sites.
Sites such as Myspace and Bebo have rapidly grown in user membership and content within the last decade. It could be said that such sites are used mainly by younger teenagers and the network site ‘Facebook’ is used by a wider range of young to older people. This, I would argue, could be because of the difference in imagination and creativity involved with the different sites.
Facebook profiles all contain the same sections to be filled out by users, the same plain white background and the same layout, e.g. photo in the top left-hand corner followed by a status etc. Whereas as the layouts and backgrounds for myspace and bebo profiles can be colourful pictures, patterns and designs with different sizes, styles and users can also make their own sections to write about themselves within, and add music playing their favourite music on too.
This creative profile making could be something many people enjoy doing, especially when it is choosing pictures and designs to reflect themselves and their lives to show off to others, but it is also something which can take up much time, energy and patience doing. So this could be why so many older people (who don’t have as much of these traits as the younger generation) look to the likes of facebook where there is no need to have the latest design backgrounds to reflect their ‘interesting’ personalities, and general way they want people to see them.
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