Part #1
I started using social media about 8 years ago when I was 13. I used the social service, AIM, which stands for AOL Instant Messenger. On AIM, I would chat with friends from high school online. However, I didn't get really into social networks until I was about 15 and my friends had created me a Myspace. Myspace was one of the most popular upcoming social networks at the time. I still use both of these services, but not as often as a similar social network which is Facebook. I signed up for Facebook about 3 years ago and I use it a lot more than I do AIM or Myspace. Facebook allows the users to communicate much more quickly with wall posts and instant messaging. The features provided on Facebook are more professional looking while also offering fun apps for users. The site allows you to do several things at once which is always a plus in our media-filled world.
Part #2
I chose to join Twitter for my new social network.
I started using social media about 8 years ago when I was 13. I used the social service, AIM, which stands for AOL Instant Messenger. On AIM, I would chat with friends from high school online. However, I didn't get really into social networks until I was about 15 and my friends had created me a Myspace. Myspace was one of the most popular upcoming social networks at the time. I still use both of these services, but not as often as a similar social network which is Facebook. I signed up for Facebook about 3 years ago and I use it a lot more than I do AIM or Myspace. Facebook allows the users to communicate much more quickly with wall posts and instant messaging. The features provided on Facebook are more professional looking while also offering fun apps for users. The site allows you to do several things at once which is always a plus in our media-filled world.
Part #2
I chose to join Twitter for my new social network.
Part #3
Design Analysis of "Twitter."
Design Analysis of "Twitter."
The social service I have joined is a micro-blogging social network called Twitter. The community it serves ranges through hundreds of thousands of people. It serves people within art & design, sports, music, charity, books, businesses, news, politics and so on. Twitter is open to the general public and there are people from all over the world that tweet. My experience while signing up for Twitter was very simple. All the application requires is a name, username, password and an e-mail address. However, once I started operating on my profile, it was a little confusing. I wasn't sure how to start tweeting or even how to find some of my friends. It's not like other social networks that I'm use to where you add friends, but instead on Twitter, you follow people instead. To interact with other users, you simply follow their tweets and profiles. You are able to read what they have updated and you are able to reply to their updates.
The goals of this social network is to follow many people and have them follow your profile. The interactions that serve this goal is by updating your tweets and replying to others. To be socially successful in Twitter, you need to follow people, get followed by others, and create lists. Social status is measured on Twitter by how many followers you have, as well as how many people you are following. But the main way that social status is displayed is by how many followers you have checking on your tweets. For example, one of the pages I decided to follow is the singer, Shakira, she has over 1, 000, 000 followers, yet only follows 30 people's tweets. From my small amount of experience with Twitter, I have found that it is a very simple form of social networking. The main idea of this social service is to update your status about what your doing, where your going, who your with, etc. To me, I don't find it very entertaining or original, I just feel like it's not necessary for hundreds of people to know all that information about your what your doing with your life. 
Part #4
Based on my experience with social networking, plus the knowledge of the history of computers, the Internet, and interfaces, I think that the future of social networking will only advance in it's technologies. The future of digital social networking services has an endless number of possibilities, such as computers with a touch interface design. It could be possible that people in social networks can communicate virtually face-to-face with a more advanced webcam device. For example, this type of social networking would be similar to Skype. I also think that as time go by, computers and the Internet will only get faster, more reliable and assessable to more and more people. I think that in the future social networking might be a way for people to get noticed by employers. For example, companies might do interviews over the computer instead of in-person.
The mistakes that social networks are dealing with now, will definitely help future versions of these social services and what they are trying to accomplish. Another advancement in social networking that may take place is separate social networks for different cities and countries. Like if my neighborhood community had their own social network where they would post up community events, as well as things that our community should be working on to create a better environment. One thing that won't change regarding social networks is that some people can spend hours on social services, whether it's talking to a friend, playing different games, updating your profile, or checking on other people's profiles. As the future approaches, I feel there could be major accomplishments in social networking.
Based on my experience with social networking, plus the knowledge of the history of computers, the Internet, and interfaces, I think that the future of social networking will only advance in it's technologies. The future of digital social networking services has an endless number of possibilities, such as computers with a touch interface design. It could be possible that people in social networks can communicate virtually face-to-face with a more advanced webcam device. For example, this type of social networking would be similar to Skype. I also think that as time go by, computers and the Internet will only get faster, more reliable and assessable to more and more people. I think that in the future social networking might be a way for people to get noticed by employers. For example, companies might do interviews over the computer instead of in-person.
The mistakes that social networks are dealing with now, will definitely help future versions of these social services and what they are trying to accomplish. Another advancement in social networking that may take place is separate social networks for different cities and countries. Like if my neighborhood community had their own social network where they would post up community events, as well as things that our community should be working on to create a better environment. One thing that won't change regarding social networks is that some people can spend hours on social services, whether it's talking to a friend, playing different games, updating your profile, or checking on other people's profiles. As the future approaches, I feel there could be major accomplishments in social networking.
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