Community that I am looking at is Facebook www.facebook.com
Facebook is a social networking site. Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.
Facebook is a free service which offers users the ability to be able to create profiles with photos, list their personal interests, contact information and other personal information. Communicating with other users can be done through public or private messages or through the chat feature which works like msn messenger. It also enables the user to choose their own privacy settings and choose who can see parts of their profile. The website also includes advertising from businesses.
People choose to contribute to facebook as it is a way of keeping in touch with friends and making connections with people that they haven't seen in a long time.
Here is an example of messages on facebook:
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There are ethical issues around privacy and confidentiality when using Facebook. For example anyone can look at photos that have been added or peoples profile content without the person's permission. You could also be chatting to someone online and they may not be who they are saying they are.
This type of community allows people to connect with anyone in the world though the use of a computer and communicate with them without having to be in close geographical proximity. However, this kind of community doesn't aloow for face to face interaction like traditional communities do. Therefore some social skills won't be as developed.
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