Social Networking sites

In a conversation with some friends I asked why most of them had not joined twitter and relied heavily on status updates on facebook as the way to keep friends posted. Facebooks is more interesting than twitter some of my friends said. Twitter is boring.
The difference between updating status on facebook and twitter is that twitter allows people to keep tabs on celebrities and institutions etc.... while most of the people we are acquiented with and with whom we interact are using facebook for this purpose. In addition Myspace post seems to be more elementary and high school population as opposed to the more mature college student facebook user. While myspace users will post cute graphics with the message: "just passing by to say hello," Many facebook users are posting course related or college related material such school networking events, course information, book information and so. Friendster seems like the next version of facebook. Instead of having a wall post and a newsfeed section, you can still get the benefits of keeping in touch with your friends and getting updates and notifications on their recent activities but it allows you to filter what friends you want to know about by bookmarking and not receiving updates on 100 different friends. Which for those who stalk people on facebook it just makes it that much easier.

What is New Media

How can we describe "New Media?" I'll start with a more factual definition. If we define it in terms of old media vs new media, we can begin by saying media sources such as magazines, newspapers, radio, television, encyclopedias, can be categorized under "old" media, while "new" media is a fusion of the two which has resulted in a computer/web based form of communication.

What do I mean by this? forms of new media include: online- newpapers, online radio, email, chat rooms, instant messaging, podcasts (online audio or video files ex, interviews), wikis (online encyclopedia), blogs, social networks (facebook), media sharing, social book marking (web based sharing bookmarks).
In order for a technology to be considered "new" it must have all the 5 C's: Communication, collaboration, community, creativity and convergence. In essence I would say new media is the new electronic web based lifestyle where we can keep in touch with our friends and family through social networks, webcam chatting, share and listen to music with out having to turn on the stereo, keep up with the latest news without having to read a newspaper or even turn on the TV, in essence a technological community bringing everyone together in a world of massive geographic divisions.