The purpose of this site is to provide people with a social website that enables them to communicate and interact with others. The user can add friends, join groups, send both personal and public messages, upload pictures, upload videos, receive birthday notifications, and complete quizzes or games that are sent by other users.
I believe people choose to contribute to this community as its an easy to use website that enables them to communicate and stay in touch with friends and family no matter where they are around the world. I use facebook for this very reason. Facebook allows me to stay in touch with my family in South Africa and America. I can keep updated with their lives by looking at their wall posts and photos
Topics discussed on facebook are usually about whats going on in peoples lives but can be about anything the user feels like sharing or talking about. As peoples lives are consistently changing so are their profiles.
Ethics to consider when using facebook are:
- False facebook accounts of people - identity theft.
- Other facebook users can upload photos of you without your permission.
- Potential for cyber-stalking and harassment.
The facebook community has many benefits over traditional notions of community. Users are able to quickly share lots of information and stay connected with people no matter where they are geographically. Users can remain silently observant before participating and all users are able to have an equal voice.
However there are still things that facebook lacks. It lacks face to face communication, It has limited communication tools, and those without Internet are unable to access it.
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