Redundancy in Social Networking Sites

Since the boom of Internet in the late 20^th to the beginning of the 21^st century, social networking websites also start its influential bloom in the web arena.  Hundreds of these establish their own place in the Internet and offer unique but user-friendly services to prospective users. The most popular of these services are photo sharing, personal status updates and place tagging. Though creative in its nature, most of these services tend to overlap with other websites that we could find redundant in terms of offered services across these social network sites.

Social networking sites continue to evolve through continues variation of social services that could improve the user’s relationship with its connection. The most simple of them all is status update and sharing. This is to encode what we feel, what we do or simple what we would like to share to our connections. We could site Friendster as one of those pioneers in this service but since the decline of its popularity, Facebook, Twitter and other sites has also offer this service. Photo sharing allows pictures to be shared among the user’s connection, in single or multiple shots. Instagram is a prominent website for this though we could see Friendster, Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare also had this. One unique feature of Facebook for photo sharing is that we can tag connections to our shared photo for easy access. One last prominent social service is place tagging where we could share we the user is to his or her connections. Foursquare is popular on this while Facebook also have this service.

From these examples, we could see that Facebook have all these popular services. Thus, these implies a rich offer of social services from Facebook which all known social networking sites have. This could reduce users from other social network sites that offer the same service with Facebook. Shared social services across various social networking sites create confusion to user. This can also provide some sites to monopolize these services. In order to prevent this, some sites provides synchronized posting with other sites, provided that it is allowed by the user. From all of this, what is important to the users of these social networking sites is that they can provide connection to their loved ones through the power of Internet.