Interactive Wesites
The initial website that comes to mind that involves interactivity is 'Facebook', probably because this is my favourite website! Also, it is many of my friends favourite website so it got me thinking why is this site so popular? And my answer was because it is centered around the user being involved and interactive with the site and its different functions. It's main role for the user is to organise your own site and add the different functions you want on there (videos, 'superwall', etc) and then communicate with the friends on there. Everything shown on your own wall is decided purely by you; what photos you have shown, what comments you want to be shown, everything. This is an attractive feature as the user is totally in control of what is being seen on their page and it is purely done by their interaction. There is an aspect of 'Registrational Interactivity' as the user communicates with their friends by writing on each other's 'walls' and adding messages to pictures, etc.
I think this website is a perfect example of an interactive website and it gains its popularity from being so interactive which is a common popular method as it can be seen in other such sites as Myspace and Bebo. Do you agree?
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Lauren,
It may be worth your while dropping an email to your fellow study-group members reminding them that they should be commenting on your blog, and you should be commenting on theirs. It's necessary, as within a regular seminar setting you would all have the opportunity to bounce ideas off each other. Could you explain further what you mean by the term 'registrational interactivity'?
All the best
Emma
yeh i think it is a good idea that the suer is completely in control of what you put on your profile...which is essentially like our own websites I guess.
I think there is the most choice of applications on Facebook although Bebo and Myspace allows you to decorate more, like by colouring your page. But I suppose it's kind of good you can't with Facebook because on Myspace when people have loads of stuff on their profiles it takes ages to load and then I don't bother going on it.
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