Social network service (SNS)

Myspace and Facebook

The following description of SNS comes from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.
(More details on the website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service)

Unlike traditional BBS, SNS provide services to users to communicate with friends lively, and through a relatively easy way. Through a bunch of tools. A part of BBS users got tired of fake names, in this background, those SNS sites encourage users use their real name and bring real world friends. Soon those sites become very popular.
In North America, Facebook and Myspace are most widely used social network service website. Myspace, by now has over 200 million registered users and it is increasing in a speed of 230 thousand new users every single day; Facebook was formed in Feb 2004. Within four years, Facebook develops into a large platform that has over 60 million registered users and this number is expected to go through 100 million in the end of this year.
The conception of SNS is in some cases included in these two great websites. Especially Myspace, make use of its current large amount of user information and social resource to attract new comers, and build up new social group. One important motive to use Myspace was looking for new friends, new life circles. On the other hand, Facebook focuses more on the service of communication, and develop into more likely a communication platform. Users of Facebook prefer to put their real social network into this platform. Through exist social network online tools like MSN or Email address list, it’s very convenient to load these data into Facebook database. Thousands of applications developed by third part software developer contribute to Facebook’s communication advantage. So, Facebook becomes a tool, an online software.