If MySpace is a PC, then Facebook is a Mac. The former may have more
users, but the latter is classier and cleaner in design. Facebook also makes
it super easy to find people you know, and it has won more fans among
professionals and the thirtysomething crowd. The site has more than 30,000
add-on applications — among them, games, interactive maps and quizzes
— to bling out your personal page (or spam your friends), and a redesign
planned for later this year will restore the tidy Facebook look that the
add-on apps have begun to clutter up. If you're on the hunt for new social
networks to ply, check out upstarts Bebo and
hi5.
—Anita Hamilton