Tutorial six investigates online comunities, I will be looking at the online community face book.
Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.
The services facebook provide a profile page for each user, where suers can display a profile picture, users can post information about themselves, what they ahve been doing or thinkings. Users can add friends and look at their profile pictures and photos and videos aswell. People can send private messages that no one else can read, or public wall to wall messages that can be displayed on the home page and anyone can read. Users can also play games, do quizzes and faciiate with the programme skype (where people can communicate like talking on a phone using the computers microphones and cameras).
The type of topics discussed are predominantly to do with social activities such as what people do in the weekend, where they are living, how they are, what they are doing. People upload photos and videos to inform people of what they are doing in the weekend!!
As any photos can be uploaded on facebook albums ethical issues with people putting photos up without permission, or photos that may have been taken without people knowing. People can log into other peoples accounts and privacy issues such as people adding you as a friend and looking at their profile and pictures.
Facebook however, has many benefits being an online community such as allows for people to communicate with family and friends, displays photos and videos and allows
It also allows people an opportunity to chat and make connections with common interests.Also allows for social networks such as re-connections with old school friends.
Online communities lack compared to tradtional comunities becasue there is no face to face talking, people can misread what has been written, only people who use the internet can be apart of the online community.
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