Provide the web address and the name of the community you are investigating?
www.facebook.com
What is the brief or focus of this community?
The focus of this community is a site for friends to stay in touch and share photos or information, you have control over how much other users can see.
What services are provided? How interactive is this site? How can people contribute?
Facebook is like a blog, you can share your thoughts and opinions and upload photos and videos for friends to see. You have control over who can see what on your page by adjusting the privacy settings, so only your friends can see your page. You can approve or ignor friend requests, and you can write on your friends pages or when they are online and you are too you can chat through facebook chat, you can also send images online. you can also access facebook on your mobile so you can update it 24/7. There are also lots of gaming applications and other intrest sites you can add.
Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment on why people choose to contribute to this community. What is it they are seeking?
People are seeking friendship and to reconect with those whom they may have lost touch, it is an easy an accessable way to communicate with others.
Cut and paste an example of the type of topics being discussed.
Considering material presented during the course and make comment on the potential ethical issues that may arise in this community.
Provacy is a big one as when you sign up you automatically go into the default privacy setting so if you dont change this yourself anyone can see your profile, your pictures and all your private information and you could end up with a stalker from another country or have people try and hack your account.
Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment on the benefits this community holds over traditional notions of community.
Facebook is an easily accessable website where friends and family can stay in touch and communicate where without it they might not communicate at all or very little due to if they are living in different countries, using facebook it doesnt matter where in the world you are you can keep in contact.
Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment what this community lacks or can not provide which traditional communities can?
I feel that with eveyone on the internet and cellphones now, no one writes or calls anymore and the younger generation are growing up without it and it soon may be gone.The general face to face communication and contact with people doesnt happen as often.
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