Social networking sites such as 'My Space' 'Facebook' and 'bebo' are all forms of virtual communities. A virtual community is a gathering place for people who all share various interests and relationships in some form or another.
Virtual communities are non-geographically bound and so these communities therefore enable people from all across the world to have conversations and communicate with each other about many different topics. Therefore the community must be user friendly and must also made interesting to the user.
Facebook for me has become a part of everyday life. I must admit, I check it one quite a regular basis, being probably more than once or twice a day. I think the ability to check how my friends across the globe are and what they are up to is brilliant. Uploading pictures, sending private mails and posting public comments and opinions is a great way of keeping up-to-date with everyones day to day life. Extra features on facebook, enable me to keep up-to-date with TV programmes, news paper articles, friends birthdays and up and coming events.
I can't remember what life was like with out networking sites like facebook but I couldn't imagine what life today would be like without it.
Virtual communities are non-geographically bound and so these communities therefore enable people from all across the world to have conversations and communicate with each other about many different topics. Therefore the community must be user friendly and must also made interesting to the user.
Facebook for me has become a part of everyday life. I must admit, I check it one quite a regular basis, being probably more than once or twice a day. I think the ability to check how my friends across the globe are and what they are up to is brilliant. Uploading pictures, sending private mails and posting public comments and opinions is a great way of keeping up-to-date with everyones day to day life. Extra features on facebook, enable me to keep up-to-date with TV programmes, news paper articles, friends birthdays and up and coming events.
I can't remember what life was like with out networking sites like facebook but I couldn't imagine what life today would be like without it.
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