Which social networking site do you find easiest to use?

From January - March 2010 we asked you, 'Which social networking site do you find easiest to use?' 1154 of you responded with the following results:

• Myspace   48 votes (4%)
• Facebook   582 votes (50%)
• Twitter   223 votes (19%)
• Bebo   14 votes (1%)
• Friends Reunited   14 votes (1%)
• LinkedIn   59 votes (5%)
• Other   76 votes (7%)
• None of them are easy to use   138 votes (12%)

Why you voted this way

A big thank you to all of you that took the time to tell us why you voted how you did. Some of our favourite comments from you, divided up by how you voted, are:

Myspace

Myspace is the easiest site to use as it provides easy access to updates, and there's more room for customisation. Facebook is more 'live', being able to get information straightaway.

Bett Smithers, Australia

Only Myspace allows you to create 'your own page'. I've looked at a million bland Facebook pages, but each Myspace page, good or bad at least reflects the person's taste (and yes, most are bad). My kids have done some stunning ones and they can't program at all.

Anon, San Diego, USA

I'm no great expert with HTML, but with what I do know, I can present my ideas the way I want to with the creative freedom on Myspace. Facebook, Bebo and Twitter seem only to contain your information in an iron-clad format. Facebook in particular has similarities to an online census.

Anon

Facebook

I find it easy to negotiate, I meet many people who share my interests and also people who share the same problems regarding disability.

Coral Luke, Burgundy France

Facebook is a great platform for sending messages, storing images, and connecting with friends and customers alike. These types of platforms will be sure to replace email in the future.

Thomas, Cincinnati, USA

Facebook has a good layout and uses simple language for interaction with the users. Pages load much faster too!

Collins Ouma Odhiambo, Mombasa, Kenya

Facebook has a number of different platforms it can work on including the iPhone app and mobile phones.

Hannon, Scotland, UK

Facebook is user-friendly. I like the fact that I'm able to control what can be posted and viewed. Although I have accounts with Myspace and Twitter, I rarely use these sites.

B, Greensboro, USA

I just haven't gotten my head around Twitter. And when I do it just looks for business and marketing-focused. It's boring...

Anon, UK

Twitter

Twitter is just perfect - pure simplicity. The concept might be an odd one to grasp for some people, certainly was for me, but the use of the site is as easy and friendly as it could be.

Prisca, London, UK

None of them do what I want. Twitter does the least since it's totally acceptable to not post all sorts of personal data on the thing and other people can't invoke your identity all over the place. Twitter is easiest because it just doesn't have all that.

Anon, San Francisco, USA

Twitter is quick, useful, informative, great.

Daman, India

LinkedIn

I qualified your question to be 'easy to use and useful' so chose LinkedIn as the groups I belong to there provide professional and relevant information.

Catherine, Toronto, Canada

Other

Orkut is best and easy.

T.N.Chakravarthi, Vijayawada, India

Orkut wasn't there!

Anon

None of them are easy to use

I find that the more advanced features of those sites are poorly documented, inaccessible, and unintuitive. For the basic user, yes, they are all pretty easy, but if you want to use the full range of tools available with these sites, you're going to need to do some research.

Matthew Bauer, New York, USA

I would post on social bookmarking sites but I'm not sure what I should post and how I should include links back to my site. Do I simply submit an article? Or do I begin a blog with my industry/products as the subject? Or do I try and find an existing blog that's on point with my products/industry?

Anon

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