Connecting to Korea

Korea Debut

The expansion and breaking through of social networking sites depends on a on a few different things: 1) The Look of the site. 2) The Ease with which these sites are user friendly. 3) Basically the cultural context has a big part to play as well.

In reference to these site's looks i would have to say, and agree with this article, that MySpace has been treading on the design frontier. It's image is now a little generic for the everyday user, in my opinion. Facebook is not significantly far ahead of myspace with respect to customization capabilities, however Facebook is not cluttered with advertisments either. I do believe that is a milestone in the differences MySpace and Facebook have with each other.

The second point has to deal with how user friendly MySpace is. I would have to say that MySpace being the leader in the online social networks would have to stand to reason that it does well when talking about user compatablility. However cluttered with irrelevant adverstising MySpace may appear, it is still on top of the few big networks.

The final point that i have mentioned was the cultural point of view. Word-of-mouth definitly helps these social orginizations to flourish. I think that it's the company that gets talked about more often that leads the competition, personally. In Korea, their superior technology and design capacities make it a haven for dull or boring websites to fish for some new material. In this article MySpace is doing just that. Whether this is good or bad, i'm not sure. I personally view the reaping of one's culture, in any aspect, a negative happening. But, if MySpace and Korea could benefit from this merger then i would have to say go for it.