With the ever changing Internet morphing and transforming in the blink of an eye, the sights, sounds and flavors online of the specific social networks won’t be left out of the wave. MySpace and Facebook have certainly included themselves in the update arena of blogs and social networks.
To compare and contrast the two largest social networks, all the while keeping up to date with the newest updates and features is an exciting roller coaster of events. While MySpace and Facebook are not the only two social networking sites on the block, they hold the top spots in this category.
In the personal interface area at MySpace, not the profile layout for your visitors to view, but the “for your eyes only” section, you can now customize the layout or background to a healthy selection of colors and styles. The individual modules can also be relocated and moved around to suit your ease of viewing them any way you would like or just close the ones you do not need altogether.
MySpace has a good selection of the new CSS 2.0 layouts as well for your visitors eyes on your profile page. The staggering amount of CSS 2.0 layout choices at the numerous MySpace layout sites will certainly allow the flare and personality of individuals everywhere to express their profile page and astound their guests. The new CSS 2.0 change is extremely easy to learn, so the switch over will be no problem. The tutorials furnished will assist with any troubles you may encounter.
Facebook has some updates as well in their personal interface area. Facebook has a cleaner feel and it is easier to see your friends news feeds, status updates, photos, and posted items all designed and navigated by the new tab system. Facebook has a shout out “Twitter Style” capability that MySpace does not yet have as you are able to comment on your friends shout outs as they make them. A shout out is just a little blurb of how you feel or what your are doing at that given time or moment, like “Going to the Store”, “BBL” (be back later), “Major Headache”, or “At Work, Saying Hi”. While MySpace has a mini shout out with no comment feature, they do have an emoticon “Mood” feature that is not incorporated into the Facebook shout out. Facebooks emoticon “Mood” feature is offered as an application widget through the “Top Friends” application and others.
Facebook has prided itself on it’s privacy features since it’s inception and it actually “feels” more private when you are venturing around the profiles, groups, and featured pages. There has been much media on the virus filled applications in the mid part of 2008, but with the onset of 2009, people are still flocking in droves over to blog social network Facebook.
MySpace is geared towards senses stimulation with it’s color oriented layouts, music with it’s many band sites, and video broadcastings. You hear MySpace and read Facebook it seems. I believe that is a big draw to both sites. The “fluff” at MySpace being the deco, diapason, dress, and design and at Facebook, the big calling is association, art, academia, and applications.
The chat features at each social network are quite different. MySpace has their IM extraordinaire but the Facebook chat is a great deal less appealing because first you need to be on and logged into the social network in order to actually use their chat feature. Whereas the MySpace IM (instant messenger) is a separate system. There is no need to be logged into the social network at all to chat and the mobile IM is quite handy.
The customization of interface levels makes Facebook seem more private, but both social networks have a great deal of privacy or not very much at all depending on your personal settings. Individual privacy settings for personal information and for each application you choose to allow at each social network. While Facebook was the first to have outside applications available on their profile areas, MySpace has stepped up to bat on the application game and introduced a huge selection.
The thought of “Poking” your friends seems so ’06 anymore compared to the Pirates, GreenSpot, MyFarm, or SuperPoke applications users are crowding to add to their own profile pages today.
For MySpace users who have switched over to the new CSS 2.0 layouts, to add your applications to your profile area and show them off on your visitors page just click the “Profile” drop down to the “Customize Profile” link, then click the “Applications” button on the left, and highlight to add which applications you would like to show for your viewers.
While both blog social networks, and I call them blog networks because each has a prominent blogging community, have pronounced and visual updates, the attractions to both social networks are numerous and wide spread. Whether you choose to become a MySpacer, Facebooker, or both is ultimately your decision. Enjoy the ride.
Listen Into Our Blogs and Social Networks Show on MySpace and Facebook Updates and Differences
Stephanie and Stevie Haile aka Wavecritter and Blogheiress Google Us 🙂
Tonights Teen Girls Radio show covered the issues of the 2008 Presidential Election. From the housing issues, gas prices, candidates views and opinions of the candidates, callers, chat room participants, and of course, the Teen Girls.
18 year old voters have an opinion and make an impact on the outcome of the vote for the President of the United States.
We mentioned a few sites on our show tonight that you may like to visit.
RockTheVote.com to find out more information on voting, the candidates, procedure and more.
USPolitics.America.gov is one of the sights we discussed information from on the differing views of each candidate. Sea_Junky let us in on this site, Thanks!
We also did some research at Project Vote Smart where you can search the candidates by State ballots.
Our MySpace pages were mentioned and our Blogs and Social Networks Blog Talk Radio Show.
Stevies MySpace
Megans MySpace (set to private just now, get in touch through Blog Talk Radio Teen Girls Radio or She is my first friend on MySpace)
Autumns MySpace
18retireds MySpace Matt Redman
18retired is also a Blog Talk Radio Host Visit His Show Here
Check This site of Matts Out!
Other awesome chat room participants who came up with some outstanding questions and comments.
Sea_Junky
LauraBeth
StarCraftt
Imax71
WaltersLV
Stevie Haile aka Blogheiress aka Teen Girl from Blog Talk Radio
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Basic HTML
You can use basic HTML in many ways and in various places. You can change simple things by making your font bolder, bigger, or smaller by using the simplest of codes. You can create page breaks and separate your paragraphs or thoughts. Change the color of your font, create a text link, or place a picture or graphic image on your web site.
If you have not yet copied and pasted a graphic or background lay-out onto a web page or a social network site such as My Space, give that a try. It will show you a great example of what an HTML code actually looks like. Study it for a few minutes to get a good look at the tweaks that could be made to any code to change just a bit of the end result.
We use HTML at social networks, on web pages, and in solo advertisements for business marketers.
Basic HTML will make your page or advertisements stand out from the crowd. Get noticed and learn a bit of HTML.
To change your font and make it show a bit of your personality or to make it jump out of the page, you will need these basic HTML codes. I will be putting spaces between the characters here to be able to post this on an area that uses HTML. When you type this, leave no spaces between the characters. Making your font bolder only requires you to type < b >. Typing in multiple sets will create an even bolder font. At the end of the word or phrase you wish to be bold, type. This code will close the bold print.
You can make your font bigger or smaller as well by using the code < big > or < small > and then closing it off with or . That is the extent of it. It is really this easy to do.
If you need a separation between ideas, thoughts, or paragraphs then use the code < Br >. If you would like a double space between the text, type two or more in a row, all touching with no spaces. This is best used with graphic images and photos, or banners and music players. It prevents the images from running together and creates a much cleaner page view.
Another neat little trick is changing your font color. Red jumps right off the page, blue is a very mellow and calming color, and yellow when used with a combination of red and black makes a very bold statement. This code is very simple and looks like this, < font >. Now, with this code, you can either just type the color name into “the color” area or do a quick search for HTML font color codes and replace “the color” with the actual color code number given on the site you find. Close the color with.
How about adding a text link to your web site or social page? Again, simple once you see it a few times. This is what it looks like. You will need to replace the yoursitehere with your web page link and TextLink with whatever you want to show as your link text.
EXAMPLE: <“A target=”_new” HREF=”http://www.yoursitehere.com/”>textlink</A>
Like This:Â Visit our <A HREF=”http://www.yoursite.com/”>site</A> |
Again, I have created spaces where there should be none to ensure readability. If I posted this on an HTML compatible page it would not show anything except the useable link called textlink. The only space needed in this code is the one between the first A and the HREF. That one is an important and essential space.
There is an easy shortcut to image codes. Uploading a stored photo or image from your computer to a site called Tiny Pic will get you your image code straight away. Just copy and paste into your project. The easiest by far. The wealth of information on and about using, viewing, and learning the basic HTML code is a search engine away. My goal is to enlighten you and show you that you can do it too. That it isn’t as difficult as we all may have thought it was and doing it correctly is within reach.
Stephanie Haile and Stevie Haile aka Wavecritter and BlogHeiress Google Us!
Links below discussed on our Blogs and Social Networks Online Radio:
http://www.xstandard.com Ken From Blog Critics BC MultiPlayer Chat Let Us Know
http://www.flock.com JadedMan Let Us Know This Was The Best New Web Browser
http://www.myspace.com/just_cuz_u_love_me Megans MySpace
http://www.MySpace.com/Wavecritter Stephanies MySpace
http://www.MySpace.com/surfpiccasso Stevies MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/meancode Ken Edwards Blog Talk Radio Official Host!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/bc/gaming BC MultiPlayer Chat! Ken Edwards!
http://www.myspace.com/meancode Ken Edwards MySpace
Blogs and Social Networks Springing Up Like Mushrooms
Holy Cow! When Stevie and I first started reviewing Blogs and Social Networks about 2 years ago, the list was completable but quite daunting. With the speed of new sites popping up weekly, daily, no … hourly, the list of reviews is completely endless and impossible to secure by a Mother and Daughter team alone. This never ending stream of new sites, updated older ones, and Social Networks up and coming out of the horizon is nothing short of an emerging army.
This weeks show on BlogsandSocialNetworks.info will cover the highlights of the newness, changes and updates of some of the power house sites like MyBlogLog, MySpace, Facebook, and some of the Google Services, along with some news and updates from Wetpaint, Utterz, Twitter helper sites and more.
Stephanie and Stevie Haile aka Wavecritter and Blogheiress Google Us
Virtual Worlds and Social Toolbars Part 1
In my questing for virtual worlds that I did not yet know about, I ran across a cool “Virtual Worlds Reviews Site”. http://www.VirtualWorldsReview.com
It contains a massive listing of cool Virtual World sites like
Place images or videos over each other when creating your profile page, reduce the opacity, and make them transparent. Nifty trick at Playdo.com! A simple site for your online profile, video, and cinema seats for viewing guests. You will need Adobe Macro Media Shockwave player for this one, no worries 🙂
On to SpineWorld.com
A new area just opened up under Cloud Spire! Are you brave enough to venture here? SpineWorld is geared toward the younger crowd (20 and younger) with a set up and Virtual Land that is literally Out of This World 🙂 Create an avatar, go on quests, make friends. This site also has a parents area, with security features, code of conduct, and more. No download, get flown into the city while receiving your instruction and clothing.
More Coming In Part 2 Social Toolbars and Virtual Worlds
Stevie and Stephanie Haile Google Us
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