Friendster VS Facebook

            The growth of Pinoy netosphere resulted also in the growth of online social networking sites. We have Multiply, Plurk, and Twitter and of course the two most famous social networking sites Friendster and Facebook.

Friendster

            Friendster is the first online social networking website that caught the country, or more specifically the Metropolitan areas by storm. Its main feature is the creation of the Friendster member’s profile page wherein one can share everything about him/herself. You can place your picture; share your favorite band, food, books, and many more. You could even create a false person and trick other people online.

            However, the true meat of Friendster is it allows you to connect with other Friendster members and add them up as your friend. You could search your elementary or high school buddies, long-lost friends, relatives here and abroad, acquaintances, and even artists and add them in your list of “friendsters.”

            During the hype of Friendster back in my first year in high school, people are bragging about the number of their “friends” in Friendster. Some have more than 500 people in their “friends” list. Many of them even invited people who they didn’t know and just read their profile online. Eventually, this superficial friendship died out. The strength of Friendster is in connecting people who genuinely and personally knew one another. I for one, limit my friends’ list only to those I have met personally.

Facebook

            I was super hooked by facebook. Aside from connecting with my friends (like in Friendster) I enjoy commenting on posts of my friends. I was also hooked because of the various activities like answering many quizzes and posting anything anytime. Some of my friends are enjoying playing games like Night Club City, Pet Society, and Angry Birds.

            Facebook is composed mainly of Friendster retirees and other Pinoy and Pinay veteran netizens. It offers the same things in Friendster like connecting with friends, uploading of photos, shouting up your thoughts and creating your own profile page. Facebook’s main advantage is its interactivity and its page layout allows such thing. You could see your friends’ activities and posts in real time and immediately react on them. As I had said, there are so many online quizzes and games that will keep anyone from logging out.

            Facebook is also the choice of celebrities and anyone could easily become their fan and get update directly from them. Even politicians use this site to interact with the people of the World Wide Web.

Friendster VS Facebook

            The war between Friendster and Facebook is still the battle between connectivity and interactivity. Many of Friendster’s old users are migrating to Facebook. For instance, I only open my Friendster account once a month.

            On the other hand, I do not want to miss the activity in Facebook and I want to get in touch with my friends retiring from Friendster. I also found out that Facebook is more blogger friendly since. This makes Facebook a powerful tool for many bloggers aiming to reach out to as many readers as possible.

            For me, Facebook is the emerging winner in this battle. It offers the connectivity as in Friendster plus the interactivity that makes my online stay worthwhile.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Computers to Students

Computers are used in education for a variety of purposes. Students benefit from using them as tools and resources for gathering information.

Computers have become so much a part of our every day lives that education can no longer keep the interest of those who use computers for entertainment or information outside of school. Students of all ages use computers for looking up research materials, producing media and multi-media projects and presentations, as well as classic tasks such as word processing. There are advantages and disadvantages of computers to students. Some advantages are:


1. The students can communicate to other people people especially when there is an internet access.


2. Students can be interactive learners with computers. They may read, do activities, play educational games and learn. They can ask for help from others or develop pen pals from other countries, thus learning about other cultures. They may be able to virtually visit places that they would otherwise never have the chance to visit.


3.   Computers make life easier - mainly people benefit from it in the sense that it makes doing things a lot easier. 


4.  One is having the internet than to search in the books at the library which takes ages. 


5.  Another is connecting with friends in the shortest period of waiting time. 


6. Having your reports printed out than writing it. [very beneficial for those with bad hand writing like me!]


7.  Computer has programs that help encoding and computing data a lot easier and faster.


The disadvantages do exist, though. Students must be educated about the dangers that exist.  Children need to be guided about the good that computers can do and led to use computers in a way that can be productive. Some of the disadvantages are: 

1. scams

2. Children are not going out as much and don't know how to interact with other people.

2. The emissions that computers make.

3.  Bad posture from sitting too long at a desk.

4.  Repetitive strain injuries and the fact that most organisations expect everyone to own a computer.

5.   viruses and spyware

6.  Children always depend on it.

7.  Some get addicted in using it.

8. A man who had habitually sit in front of a computer develop health problems like back aches and eye damage.

9. Last, the disadvantage of computers is that they are not available to all children's educations. This will mean that later, there is an imbalance in the amount of computer knowledge and there will be a group of adults who are scared of computers or are ignorant about the possibilities because they were never exposed to them.

Computers benefit students by providing quick access to information and skill sets that might take much longer to acquire using traditional methods. Students do not need to be ignorant of their areas of strength or needed improvement with easy access to grades and achievement information.