Week 7
Have been looking at the 3 social networking sites. Myspace has some neat features like being able to customise your profile using colour and fonts - I like the idea of being able to individualise the profile in detail. I also like the interests and zodiac fields. I'm not interested in the music or video options but seeing other people's karaoke attempts would be fun, but I wouldn't use it myself! I don't really like the classifieds option as it will probably grow and grow and become another Trademe. Trademe is great but we don't need it on this site.
Facebook doesn't appeal to me so much because of the ads - they're annoying and take up room on the page - it would be nice to be ad free sometimes. I don't like the Gifts idea -it's an easy way out and doesn't require any effort or thought, and someone' s making money out of it. Also I don't like the Marketplace for the same reasons as I don't like the classifieds in Myspace. Things I like are being able to add tags and newsfeeds. Also the birthdays and events notices are good. The privacy settings having to be changed to stop everyone from seeing your details seems to me to be the wrong way round - you should have to make changes to let anyone see your details. People could easily get caught out by this.
Bebo is the least interesting site to me - it's very teen oriented. I'm not into music, videos or being unable to live without a mobile phone, or options like quizzes or polls. It is good having a default private setting when an account is created unlike Facebook, and Bebo's 3 privacy options are good.