This tutorial was based on the internet and online communities
The online community that I decided to search was Facebook. This social networking site's web address is www.facebook.com. This website aims to allow people to stay in touch no matter where in the world they live. It has a private chat application as well as a 'wall' for each user which people can write on. There are also photo albums which you can upload pictures, these along with your wall are available for people you accept or add as your friend on the site. It is a very interactive site, as the users are constantly able to interact with each other in one form or another.
This is an example of a facebook conversation:
Stacey - Lauren: so i am up next sat...in 6 days =D for the first time since march haha quite excited really lol.
i will prob get there sat night cause i have to play hockey down here before i drive up and will be leaving on the tues prob, so book me in lol
you told me to remind you so i reminded you
Yesterday at 1:36am · Comment · Like
Lauren Damn, woman. Worst weekend for you to come up, I only worked 2 days last week so maybe Petite will have to wait. I'm definitely having you Saturday night though, we'll figure something out.
Did you hear from Kim yet?
Yesterday at 7:43am · Like
Stacey i am already booked for sat night sorry! mum and dad just got home from overseas and since i wont get there till late i wont be able to go out right away haha think they would get offended. sunday i am all yours though!
na, will give her a wee text now though
Yesterday at 12:22pm · Like ·
As you can see, it is a very informal social based website. This means that some ethical issues may arise. Privacy, again is a key one. As mutual friends are able to read your conversations if they are not in the private chat service. If you chose to put photos up then people can see these. There are privacy settings that can be set to prevent strangers looking through your page and photos. The main benefits of this community is that you can keep in touch with anybody anywhere in the world, you can see what they are up to by the updates they make and photos that they put up. However, it also lacks some things that traditional communities can provide, such as face to face social interaction. We are slowly loosing touch with this as we become more reliant on technology to stay in touch with people. If somebody is not connected with this site and regularly go on it then this form of communication is gone, leaving you with nothing.
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