Twitter and Facebook soar; Myspace loses ground

by: Amy Johnson

Countless college students use Facebook as their means of procrastination. It appears that not only are college students doing this, but people of every age.

Twitter has also exploded onto the social networking scene, joining Facebook as one of the top five social networking sites on the Internet. Both Facebook and Twitter have been on a roll this year with Facebook adding its 300 millionth user in September.

Myspace Inc.'s business took a major fall, but still found itself in second place among the social networks. Tagged is in third place.

In computer lab's all around Simpson, one can easily notice that most students may be working on a project or paper, but Facebook is also up in a different tab.

“There are so many more advertisements on the sides of my Facebook, and I find them very distracting,” junior Amy Brandt said. “The topics seem to be ridiculous too.”

Perhaps if the top advertisers on television would start putting ads on Facebook that might benefit people, they would sell more of their product. Judging by the statistics in this article, advertisers would see an increase in sales.

(Photo Credit: Jay Cameron)