Perfspot…the new facebook?

Perfspot has 4.5 million members, most of which are American. However it is the fastest growing social networking site and is gaining hundreds of members’ everyday. It is mainly an American platform at the moment with all nearly all content is for American’s but why are more UK users joining up? What is its advantages over the nations favourite Facebook? If any?

The differences

Facebook started out as a rival to MySpace but was aimed more towards college and university students with its unique networking system. However Facebook has grown and has never looked back. Users have grown to office staff and now if you’re anyone you have a facebook account. There are 6.5 million users in the UK alone.

However some users of facebook have become annoyed about the constant adding of strange applications, I can become a vampire, have a food fight or play poker within the site. The rise of the American social networking Perfspot could prove a stumbling block for Facebook.

So why is Perfspot converting so many American’s. I believe that it is because of easy navigation – facebook is easy but this is even easier – the ability to retrieve news is better and you can publish articles and have your own blog. I might be biased about the articles being a student journalist but everyone seems to want their say about all subjects so setting up a blog is a great idea.

Their privacy settings are so easy to uses as well with people becoming increasingly aware of potential employers looking in the internet. What if they find you’re status as at the pub? Great first impressions eh. I know you can change your settings on facebook to hide you’re profile but it is so much easier on Perfspot, were all up for something that makes things a little easier.

Verdict

So does easy – Perfspot - beat the massively popular - facebook? Yes but no. Perfspot is great if you’re American but for anyone else then it becomes difficult. The easy user interface and security settings are a real plus for Perfspot. It is growing rapidly and is not cluttered with food fights or become my animal invitations.

But if Perfspot was British then would I use it ahead of my facebook account? Yes. Perfspot is not suitable for the British user yet so I will keep with Facebook.