Features of Myspace and Facebook

Features 

                                   

 

These are the chat features of Facebook and Myspace. The blue one is Myspace.

 

Here is the Myspace Music Feature, which is a player. Everytime someone goes onto your profile the song or songs will play.

Here is the facebook 'status update' box. It is the feature of Facebook which is much like a blog where you can tell people 'What's on your mind?'

To these posts you can add pictures, videos and links to other websites. Above will take you to information about the person whos profile you are on and the photos they have uploaded or been tagged in by another user. The myspace one below is very similar.

Here are the icons which take you to new friend requests being the icon of the people, your inbox being the icon of the speech bubbles and notifications which include people writing on your profile wall and commenting on your posts, videos and pictures. It is the icon of the world.

The myspace one is very similar but the facebook one is situated at the top of the page so it is the first thing you see when you first log on rather than the myspace one being on the right side of the page, further down.

Unfortunatly Facebook posts and Myspce posts are considered to be a lot more useless than proper blogs. Most people are said to post status updates because they are more not because they want to inform everybody about a topic they are interested in.

 

News Stories

Facebook bully jailed: Death threat girl, 18, is first person put behind bars for vicious internet campaign

A teenager who posted a death threat on Facebook, yesterday became the first person in Britain to be jailed for bullying on a social networking site.

Keeley Houghton, 18, said she would kill Emily Moore, whom she had bullied for four years since they were at school together.
On her personal page, Houghton wrote of her victim: 'Keeley is going to murder the bitch. She is an actress. What a ******* liberty. Emily ****head Moore.'

Two days before she made the threat, Houghton had intimidated Emily, who is also 18, after spotting her in a pub.

The Megan Meier MySpace Incident

Megan Meier was a 13 year old from Missouri who struck up an online friendship on the popular social networking site MySpace with a person she believed was a new boy in her hometown. In actuality, the “friend” was a group of individuals, including adults, who were intent on humiliating the poor girl because of a friendship with another child that had gone awry. Megan was very upset when she found out the truth, then later committed suicide once the friendship had terminated. The horrifying case stunned the community and caused state government officials to pass some of the harshest cyber bullying laws in the country.

Unfortunately Facebook and Myspace have made bullying a lot easier as they can intimidate people over the computer rather than face to face for everyone to see. There are 'block' icons which can stop people from contacting you and viewing your profile and the 'report abuse' icon which means facebook can ban certain people from having an account but all of this doesn't help.

You can now load apps onto iphones and itouches so you can access myspace and facebook on your phone. Also most mobile phones now come with access to the internet where you can access these social networking sites at any time.