The three online communities I have chosen to elaborate on are
Facebook
YouTube
Google
Facebook is a social networking service 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. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other better. Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.
YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. Unregistered users may watch videos, and registered users may upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users 18 and older. YouTube is now operates as a subsidy of Google. Billions of users use YouTube everyday.
Google is an international search engine. Search can be filtered to provide information from New Zealand only. Billions of users use it every day to educate themselves and find out information.
Users of facebook choose to sign up to the social networking site in order to speak to other people such as friends and family online. Facebook is a cool and exciting way of communicating. People whom sign up to facebook are seeking new friends or are wanting to catch up with old friends. Information shared via facebook can sometimes breach privacy acts and personal information can be released to people the user is unfamiliar with. If pages are set under 'private' users cannot gain access.
Users of YouTube either watch video clips and/or upload clips for people to view. Users who upload videos are seeking people to watch their videos and get their ideas out into the community. Videos on YouTube are usually put on so lots viewers are able to see them. Users who view the videos on YouTube are usually trying to educate themselves or just watch the video clip for that latest song they heard on the radio!
Users of Google either put information on Google or search Google. Google is an especially good tool for finding out information and educating yourself. iGoogle is a new-ish Google in which is set as your home profile and you are able to personalise with weather updates etc.
Because Facebook is a social networking page, unfortionatly I am unable to copy and paste information form the website. Below you will find copies from YouTube and Google:
This is a rap on YouTube in which two passionate girls did about OT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDP1-gcDcAI
All three chosen websites are a world wide phenomenon. Almost everywhere has knowledge of these sites or has acces to them. In some ways, this is dangerous, especially for facebook. This is because anybody in the world can gain access to a complete strangers account and learn information about them. YouTube, however, can be of an advantage being a world wide website as people from all over the world are able to upload videos, this can educate everyone on different cultures, perspectives etc!
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