Social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook and Twitter has almost conquered most of our lives. I don’t know what research says but I’m sure it comes on the top of the most visited sites for Internet savvies  who are eager to know what’s happening in others life.  I’m quite frequent on Facebook and make sure to login each time I switch on my PC.

It’s been a while I have updated my profile in Orkut. I prefer FB and twitter anytime better then Orkut.  They really need to provide a face-lift otherwise it will be too late. However, Orkut is the first social networking site I joined and my initial “expression update” floated via Orkut. Sooner I switched to FB and since then it’s one of my preferred daily site hit.

Nowadays, twitter has come up as one of the best social networking sites based on it’s simplicity and in-built widgets that one can use in their own / other sites. I call twitter a site for fast expression. Though it’s easy for me to get an update what’s happening in others life, it gives me an option to update my status via direct site or mobile version, faster than either Orkut or FB.  Moreover, due to the presence of FB-Twitter connectivity, now I have update status on Twitter only which automatically updates my FB profile.

The Twitter widget for websites is better than FB profile widget.  Twitter profile widget gives an option to showcase recent tweets, both individual and favorite tweets, as compared to the FB static profile widget.  I like the scrolling behavior of twitter widget. FB should introduce a ready-made profile widget which could atleast show last 5 updates and scroll it automatically.  However, one can play around with FB profile RSS and add some javascript to create their own dynamic widgets.

Here’s the widget: