Al-moshey R. Tidal
CITE 2S
Wikispaces – Comments and suggestion
Wikispaces.com ( CITE2distancelearning)
1. Wikispaces has been great so far. It is an amazing thing to learn through
community building activities in an online environment through wiki.
2. Online users are visible from other users
3. You can view you peers and colleagues
4. It’s a bit difficult to use and sometimes very confusing
5. It has no notifications of any actions and activity done inside the group
6. You can send/attach files on wikispaces.
7. Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and educators
are available for an annual fee.
8. Users can send private message and post comments on other user.
Facebook.com
What is Facebook?
Facebook (stylized facebook) is a social networking and website launched in
February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January
2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users. Users may create a
personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including
automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join
common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or
other characteristics. Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be at
least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and
others who ... Sign UpFacebook helps you connect and share with
the people in your life.
I Suggest Facebook for my classroom due to its renowned and user-friendly
it can be a good classroom easy and accessible.
What are the core features of Facebook?
Messages and Inbox
Since the website's founding, it has allowed users to send
messages to each other. A facebook user can send a message
to any number of his/her friends at a time. Deleting a message
from one's inbox does not delete it from the inbox of other
users, thus disabling a sender to redo a message sent by him.
Wall
The Wall is a space on each user's profile page that
allows friends to post messages for the user to see while
displaying the time and date the message was written.
One user's Wall is visible to anyone with the ability to see
his or her full profile, and different users' Wall posts show
up in an individual's News Feed. Many users use their
friends' Walls for leaving short, temporal notes. More private discourse is saved for messages, which are
sent to a user's inbox, and are visible only to the sender and recipient(s) of the message, much like email.
Networks, Groups, and Like Pages
Facebook allows different networks and groups to which many users can join. It also allows privacy
settings on basis of networks. Groups are used for discussions and events etc. Groups are a way of
enabling a number of people to come together online to share information and discuss specific subjects.
They are increasingly used by clubs, companies and public sector organizations to engage with
stakeholders - be they members of the public, employees, members, service users, shareholders or
customers. A group includes but is not limited to the following: the members who have joined recent news
contents, wall contents, photos, posted items, videos and all associated comments of such items. In this
respect, groups are similar to pages but contain more features .Groups are limited to 300 groups per user,
though it is possible to find some users with more than 300 groups because it was possible to dodge this
limit in a few ways, until recently when they fixed those exploits.
Notifications
Notifications of the more important events, for example, someone
sharing a link on the user's wall or commenting on a post the user
previously commented on, briefly appear for a few seconds in the
bottom left as a popup message (if the user is online), and a red
counter is updated on the toolbar at the top, thus allowing the user
to keep track of all the most recent notifications.
Chat
Users can easily chat with other user one to
one in a small dialogue box.
Events
Facebook events are a way for members to let friends know about upcoming events in their community
and to organize social gatherings. Events require an event name, network, host name, event type, start
time, location, and a guest list of friends invited. Events can be Public or Private. Private events cannot be
found in searches and are by invitation only. People who have not been invited cannot view Private event
description, Wall or photos. They also will not see
any Feed stories about the event. When setting up
an event the user can choose to allow friends to
upload photos or videos. Note that unlike real
world events, all events are treated as separate
entities (when the reality is some events sit inside
other events, going to one event would preclude
going to another, and so on).
Facebook - a popular name among those who are so into it. Individuals who have an
account in Facebook are now using more of their time to socialize with other people amidst
the distance and lack of time. And even if a community like Facebook serves numerous
advantages, it also proves to have certain disadvantages as well. There are now series of
improvements in the system just to make up with the shortcomings. Arguments regarding
the different advantages and disadvantages of Facebook are stated below.
Advantages
· Allows user search for new and old friends
· Accessible to chosen universities having a high level of security
· Makes it less awkward when communicating with strangers or people you are not
familiar with
· Makes it easier to join groups having similar likes and dislikes
· Allows members to check students who are taking the same class, living within
the same area, or coming from the same academy
Disadvantages
· Overcrowding
· Weakening long distance relationship
· Unsupported by physical adjacency
· Contributes wide-range procrastination
· Rampant addiction
· Stalking is possible
· Acquaintances be labeled as friends
Surely, the disadvantages don't pose a threat to you just by merely looking at it. Someone
else has to prove that what users do with their profile is directly in proportion with what can
happen to them. A user must understand what he is trying to give out otherwise things
might get messy and people will mistook them as someone else.
It is quite obvious that a trade off is happening between the advantages and disadvantages
of Facebook. While it increases the communication and connection between friends and the
online community it also increases the risk of procrastination and makes it easier for others
to stalk a user. Worse, some are actually punished for what they put on their profile and
would claim that it was there only for fun.
Sources:
1. ^ "Facebook Chat at TechCrunch". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
2. ^ "Facebook Chat at Facebook's support sites". Facebook. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
3. ^ "Using Facebook Chat via Jabber". David Reiss. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
4. ^ "Facebook Chat Launches XMPP Support". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
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6. ^ Dean Takahashi (June 29, 2010). "Social game firm Crowdstar embraces Facebook Credits in five-year
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