Facebook Outpacing MySpace
Posted on February 16, 2009 by Jennifer Brady
Andy Kazeniac writing on the Compete blog offers a recent analysis of the relative rankings of the 25 leading online social networking sites. As we were celebrating New Year’s, Facebook was probably celebrating that it pushed MySpace out of the top spot, both in terms of overall monthly visits and unique visitors.
Incidentally, the numbers are astonishing. Facebook had nearly 1.2 billion – with a ‘b’ – visitors in January. More than 68 million of these were from first-time visitors. For more, you’ll want to invoke the link provided above to see all the mind-boggling numbers as well as the list of less-well-known, but still very popular, sites.
By the way, Twitter is really moving up the list. Ranked 22nd last year, they are now the third most popular social network offering.
With this said, I am curious about what your thoughts are on these tools and how you use them in the classroom to teach or learn.
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I use these tools for my personal use. They do have pedagogical uses, but I think that people need to evaluate the appropriateness for classroom use.
One thing that comes to my mind as a big no-no is the use of Facebook (or any other social network for that matter) for classroom purposes. Professors should not force students to ‘friend’ other students in the class as a prerequisite for the class. These social networks were not built for this type of pedagogy. If faculty want a space other than blackboard/moodle, they can create a class network on Ning, or a more limited yahoo/google group.
I don’t see twitter as a ’social network’ (in the sense of myspace and facebook). I see it as a blogging platform that can be used in various methods for class use. The problem with twitter is that you don’t go back to read previous tweets. Twitter is like a stream of water. When you ‘get on’ the stream you move forward and you follow for 1,2,3 hours. If you haven’t been on for days, it’s a bit of a pain to go back and read the class tweets -unless- you’ve got a separate account for that class.