My selected online community is TWITTER!!!!
"Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers." (Retrieved June 23, 2010, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter)
Twitters motto is "Discover whats happening right now anywhere in the world"
I would totally agree with that! Twitter is an online community like facebook, however its more about whats going on right now. You can "tweet" from you computer, cellphone, iphone etc so its simple and quick to do. It connects people from all over the world and allows them to know whats happening with you at that exact moment!
Twitter is free and anyone can join up!! You can follow almost anyone, however for privacy issues you can make your page/tweets private, that way only your friends and family can have access. Once you have joined twitter you can tweet as much or as little as you like its up to you. Unlike other sites twitter is simple and mainly focusses on the 'tweets'!!
I joined twitter as alot of my hometown friends have it and we are able to keep up to date with what everyone is doing just by recieving a simple tweet to our phone.
A lot of people join twitter to follow the celebrities who tweet, as well as journalists who followe celebrities to find out what they are doing.
An example of a tweet is "clairesmith62: About to go bungey jumping for the first time...eeeeekk" - A simple txt like message of what that person, is doing or about to do.
Ethical issues that have become problems for twitter include:
-Celebrities being constantly stalked by papparazzi and fans (however some could argue if you dont want people to follow you dont join twitter)
-Same privacy issues as other online communities such as uploading photos of people without their consent.
I am very biased but I love twitter, its a great way to stay in contact and in my books has no drawbacks! (maybe the 140 character limit per tweet!)
If however you have no access to internet you may not be able to join twitter and enjoy all that it ha sto offer!!!
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