www.facebook.com
Facebook is a social networking site.
You can add people as friends
send friends messages
chat to them (when both are online)
update your personal relationship and even join networks like schools and work.
notifications- a little red flag letting you know if someone has commented on something of yours
news feed- this appear on everyones homepage. This lets them know what other people have been doin on facebook
upload photos and videos and share them with friends by tagging them in it
satuts- letting your friends know what your thinking, what your doing etc
People decide to contribute to this online communite becasuse its a way of comunicating with friends and family. I am a member myself and I am able to communicate with old primary school friends who I have lost contact with over the years. Im also able to contact family memebers who are overseas where it is too exspensive to ring them.
Types of topics being discussed on facebook are how people have been, what have they been doing with their lives, what are they doing on the weekend etc etc. For example my friends stautus update "yay i got a new car today!! EXCITING"
There are many ethical issues that can arise on facebook such as:
creation of fake profiles ( this can be to stalk people)
data theft
people are able to stalk other people and look at their profile and pictures
you can be tagged in a photo without your permission
viruses
Some benifits this community holds over traditional notions of community are as follows:
Being able to monitor users
participants are able to have equal voice
infomation can be easy spread within a short amount of time
informtion can be sent privately to other users
There are areas in which this online community can not provide which other communitys can. These are as follows:
not every individual is able to have acesses to a computer
there is no face to face communication
not all content is followed so allegal stuff can be on this community.
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