Outline of Comparison-Contrast Essay Which is better, friendster vs facebook?

Title  : Which is better, friendster vs facebook?

*) Outline

1. Introduction

a. General Statement                         : Did you ever hear about friendster and facebook? I’m sure that you are quite familiar with these two names of social network.

b. Thesis Statement                           : Although these two kinds of social network, but there are some differences and similarities between them that can be consider as the plus or minus points.

2. Body

a. Paragraph 1

1. Topic Sentence                          : The difference between friendster and facebook in year released.

2. Supporting idea                         : Friendster are released first in early 2005 and it became popular during 2005-2008, while facebook released in the end of 2008 and actually it replace the existence and the popularity of friendster.

b. Paragraph 2

1. Topic Sentence                          : The difference between them in notification features.

2. Supporting idea                         : In friendster, there are notification feature that doesn’t exist in facebook. It can shows who have seen our profile. But, in facebook, we are served with many features that can help us to be closer with our friends, relatives, family, or someone. For example, like and comment feature, tag photos features, sibling features, etc.

c. Paragraph 3

Transition from the differences, move on the similarities between friendster and facebook.

d. Paragraph 4

1. Topic Sentence                          : The similarities between friendster and facebook in provider’s purpose.

2. Supporting Idea                        : These two social networks actually have the same purpose when they are released. Like the other social network, it was designed for instant use of people that don’t have much time to socialize with community or his/her family, even friends. So, they can use these two social networks to keep-in-touch with old friends or maybe their relatives, and so on.

e. Paragraph 5

1. Topic Sentence                          : The similarities between friendster and facebok user’s profile.

2. Supporting Idea                        : When we are logged in these two kinds of social network, and open our profile, the appearance is almost the same. We’ll see our profile picture, see your backgrounds, what are you interested in, hobbies, born date, and etc.

3. Conclusion

Conclusion paragraph                       : Although friendster and facebook as social networks that created by Western people have some differences and similarities, it was being the most popular networks at their time. Being realized or not, most of us are usually spend our time just to open it for a seconds. It has been our part of life, being networking society and being active in social networking especially for the teenager, they will spend much more time to “online” than the other people. Do social networking is good, but spend too much time on it will be a waste. Social networking is better than doing nothing, but education, work, holiday, and the other activity in the “real world” is the most important things.