I love blogging, and one thing that I enjoy much about the online activity is the fact that people can read and comment about my thoughts and feelings about anything under the sun, no matter how wacky and weird they may be. Apart from that, I get to keep in touch with my friends, either online or personal, by reading and leaving comments about their blogs as well. I’m just one of the millions out there who do online blogging and since then, everyone has been hooked up into the idea of meeting new people and at the same time connecting with old friendships through personalized pages and interesting entries.

Badoo for example is an online blogging website, quite similar to other websites such as Pagii and Blogger, because of the way it integrates blogging and connecting people from around the world. The splash page itself already indicates how the makers emphasize and prioritize connecting users, and they do this through blogs and sharing media like photos and videos through their personalized pages. You can meet new people or get back in touch with your old group of friends through Badoo and show them just what a person you really are through your own blog entries and how you personalize the lay-out or theme of your page. Well, as a blog site I’d give it a rating of 6 out of 10 mainly because there is still much to improve before Badoo can really become a popular blog site.

Badoo.com isn’t messy, that’s for sure. It uses interesting Java scripts and keeps their website clean and neat by using only icons and a few buttons to direct people around the website when they log in. Though this is always a good thing when it is about the way the page is arranged, Badoo fills its Member’s Page with more text and places them in a way that it looks rather primitive as compared to other blog websites. What irks me as well is the blog writing page; it’s so painfully plain. There are only two textboxes for writing the title and the entry and links to click on when you’re done writing. This made me wonder if Badoo.com concentrates more on the photo portion of the website than its main feature, which would explain the little effort they did to make the blog writing page interesting and interactive to encourage people to write entries at all.

Overall I find Badoo to be a little behind on the blog site industry since the entire website only consists of friend-finding and writing entries to make your personal page more interesting. The website’s clean, organized, I love the colored circles as their bullets, the splash screen’s great, but really is this all that Badoo.com’s made of? There isn’t even a theme to choose from or create to make your page really personalized. Hopefully by the time the makers decide to more features, they’d remember to redecorate the blog writing page and add more pictures and buttons instead of merely text and links

Link | Badoo.com

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Friendster is a social networking website, founded in Mountain View, California by Jonathan Abrams. It was launched on March of 2002, and now it’s one of the most famous social networking services in the world, and it is more widely used in Asia. In the Philippines it is the second most visited site, only next to Yahoo. Estimates say that ninety percent of internet users in the Philippines have Friendster accounts.

Friendster is a wholesome site. It is applicable for both young and old, and it connects registered users worldwide. Registering to Friendster is free. All you’ll need is your e-mail account and a password. It connects people through networking – friends inviting their friends, and their friends inviting yet more of their own friends, creating a big web of interconnected people.

This site is user friendly, and it has a pleasingly smooth appearance, refreshing to the eyes. It has many features, but the most important and more commonly used features are the Friend Finder, Picture Uploader, Blogs, and Groups. Equipped with these essential features, the site has become a pastime for some, a refuge for others and a separate world for many.

Let’s now explore these features that make up the Friendster network, firstly the Friend Finder. A social networking website can not thrive without this feature in the first place. This feature enables the user to search the entire network for family, friends, or acquaintances that might have already been registered. It has many options for the manner of conducting the search. There’s searching by narrowing down – this asks the searcher to input the sex, age boundaries, the status, and the place where they can be found, and then the search engine will show a narrowed down list of all those within the network who fit into the set descriptions. Another way for the engine to conduct a search is for the searcher to input either the name of the e-mail address of the person he or she is looking for. And other manners of searching are by college, by school, by groups, and through the web, all the way being powered by Google.

The Picture Uploader is another big feature that fuels the interest of people to Friendster. Nowadays digital cameras are very widely used. On top of that even cellular phones have cameras. The point is that digital pictures are much more relevant now, and hard photos are phasing out. So now where can people share their pictures? There’s nowhere better than in social networking sites like Friendster, which is where the Picture Uploader feature comes in very useful. Here, users can upload up to one thousand photos in their account, and these photos can then be viewed and shared with other members of the Friendster community.

The Blogs feature in Friendster simply allows the user to write sayings, stories, poems, and whatever he or she so wishes to write. This is a good place for writing enthusiasts to post and share their works to the world, or for critics to have their say.

And finally the Groups feature enables users to join special groups to have a special place within the network. Groups consist of people who have unique and common bonds such as having common interests or being part of a team or a band. The Groups feature provides a place in Friendster for such groups.
These important features are the ones that make Friendster one of the world’s biggest online social networking communities and are the network’s drivers to success.

Link | Friendster.com

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