Week 2

Choose at least two out of the six of the following terms of reference to make further comments about the site you have been reviewing and the services it offers:

·         Trustworthiness (of the site)

·         Reputation (of members)

·         Ownership (of content)

·         Moderation

·         Management of content

·         User interface and customisation.

Once again use screen captures and your own words to document and interpret what you see. Note that if you do copy statements or policies from a web site these must be in quotation marks and the source URL referenced.

With screen captures, make sure you note the URL where you sourced the image and, the date viewed, as part of your caption.

TRUSTWORTHINESS – The trustworthiness of Facebook has been a topic of conversation for many people and for lots of different reasons. Lately it has been criticised because of the lack of trustworthiness it offers to its users. Not only does it change its privacy settings all the time, but it does not make its users aware of the changes being made and people are unaware of the altered settings. This can be very irritating for people who are private and do not want their information out there for everyone to see or do not want their details given out to any other sites.

USER INTERFACE AND CUSTOMISATION – Facebook has been simple when it comes to customisation and user interface. In comparison to social media websites like MySpace, it is very modest. With MySpace, users are allowed to change their profiles to be as simple or extravagant as they like and can incorporate photos and videos on their actual profile page. Whereas Facebook allows users to have a profile but there is only one design.

The layout of Facebook has changed several times since I have become a user of this social media website and I have noticed that each time it changes, there is always chaos and users complain because it seems to be hard to use and understand in comparison to the previous layout, but over time people forget about it and just go on using Facebook despite their annoyance at the layout change. Then in a year or so, the same thing happens all over again.