Taking the whole advantage of social media

 In this brief write up I’m handling how the many advantages of social media communication is taken in my own studies. I’ll be also observing and comparing two different social media tools which I have chosen by myself.


First of all, social media communication is used in my P2P business studies almost daily. Especially we use Optima in daily basis but have also experiences for example GoogleDocs and massidea.org. Sharing your ideas in massidea.org was exciting and I personally find Optima very handy and useful in daily use. As I study business, we do 99% percent of our studies using computers. I think it would be a waste of good opportunity if social media communication wasn’t used.

In our P2P studies sharing your own ideas and work is essential. Using different social media communication tools makes sharing our own thoughts and commenting on others’ ideas easier. Personally I think it’s important to fearlessly try new ways to communicate (also when it comes to studies or professional communication).

There can be found multiple similarities when comparing Facebook and Myspace. Although Myspace’s way of use has changed since it was first built up. In both, Facebook and Myspace, you can create your own profile and communicate with other people. Users can also upload pictures and make the profile match with their own personalities. In Facebook the use is however more private and personal; people log in as their real personas using own names, when in Myspace the majority of users uses nicknames and don’t probably share the same amount of personal information as in Facebook. Because of this, keeping an eye on security and privacy issues in Facebook is more important. Nowadays Myspace is used more as a platform of advertising your own band or art. Many bands and artists share their material in Myspace and they might have gathered huge numbers of visitors on their pages.

Summing up, right now Facebook is used more as a way to share personal information and pictures and keep in touch with friends under users’ own identities. Myspace has renovated their brand and it’s used more by artists and bands publishing their material to larger audiences. However, social media tools are constantly developing and changing, who knows how much, both Facebook and Myspace, will change during the years!