Week 7

It's amazing how addicted one can get to on-line social networking.
Before i would never of even considered creating a myspace account or a hi-5 account or even a facebook account for that matter.
The only reason i did create a hi-5 account was because my sister had one and i realised all my friends and cousins were on their, and i would find both my sister and brother who are both younger than me constantly online checking their hi-5 accounts.
So, i thought I'd be cool and create an account too. Well, not to be cool. Obviously.
For a long time i was pretty addicted to that, but then i realised that it wasn't something that i found particularly interesting as i found that anonymous people, and total strangers could view my profile and pictures, and would leave messages, that sometimes could get inappropriate.
However, between this period i also got a request from a friend to join myspace, which i joined eventually. I never actually used it but decided to put up 1 picture of me only. I also found that this was a bit like hi-5 in the sense that people could view my profile, and therefore never really signed in.

The fact that total strangers could actually view my pictures etc, kind of put me off, and therefore i have not logged into either myspace or hi-5 account... and therefore i am going to be deleting those soon! When i actually get around to it that is.
Then came along facebook, which initially i thought to be the same thing as hi-5 and myspace, but when i started seeing my old friends from primary school and secondary school on there, i decided to create an account. I found that i felt much more comfortable with it as it allows you to have certain restrictions for people who can and can't view your profile. Wow i quite like that!
I can choose who can view my pictures and who can't, so i like the fact that i have more control over my own identity and who can view it.

However, it is freaking me out in the sense that i am actually logging onto facebook more than just once in a day, sometimes 3 times a day! Which i find unacceptable! I have more important things to do like assignments, but i still find more time to check out comments and messages on my facebook, oh and the friend requests that come now and then from old mates!
I can now sort of understand how easy it is to get addicted to online social networking. Sometimes it can be an easier way to keep in touch, although i find it more appropriate to just call and speak to someone over the phone...but i find myself doing that a lot less now.
Hmm, what does that say about me?

Week 6

Well, next week we are all meeting up to sort of put things together. We will assign more of what we would like each individual to do, but also will participate in anything that we feel we can add to the project. This way everyone can get as much work done equally.
Hopefully we will have a lot done by the deadline as it seems we are getting the hang of things.
Let's just hope its good enough for Nigel.

Good and Bad

Ok, so it's obvious why the sites i have chosen will evidently be recognised as either good or bad websites.
http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/
The above website is absolutely ridiculous! No offence to what it is trying to portray but the colours are blinding. It seems that even with the message that they are trying to convey, it actually makes you think twice?!

http://www.youtube.com/
Ok so this is pretty obvious too. Although not many people would consider this to be a good website, the fact that it is very easy access and usable for every one is the main issue here. It seems to target its audience in the sense, that one can instantly find what they are looking by just typing in the "search" bar at the top centre of the page.

Week 5

Here are some links to some good websites and some very bad one's.
You can see which website would be much more appealing, and which one would not even be considered.

Bad Websites:

http://www.globalaigs.org/

http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/

Good Websites:

http://www.youtube.com/

Yes, it seems pretty simple, but the idea that its available for everyone to use, helps justify that.
http://www.msn.com/

Week 4

Ok, so I'm still a little baffled about this unit. Although things are slowly coming together there is still a lot more that i need to learn.
Our group have managed to upload each members pictures using html.
Now that's what i call an achievement! Unfortunately, i still am unable to get to grips with that. But, i know by the next lesson i will definitely have got the hang of it...well, lets hope so.

Community. What does one think when they hear this term? Well, everyone has several opinions and their own interpretation of what a community is, but we all know it as a group of people who live and share the same environment, and have certain interests alike.
Also community can be shared within a community in itself. This could be down to things such as cultural beliefs or religion, and also professions. For e.g. a community of doctor's or lawyers.

So although this is most definitely applied to a lot of communities as it is evident in the society today, i would agree that the term community, can relate to all the above and can also be formed by another community, whether it's down to what soaps they like or what food they like. A community can be formed in many different agenda's in my opinion, be it right or wrong.