Week 5 Lecture Posted by Sarah:):) , Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 8:26 PM, in

In this week's lecture, we had a look at the different sites out there on the internet. We also had a talk about social networking sites and how the popularity of them changes over time. Myspace has been replaced by Facebook and Facebook will be replaced by Twitter. There are some really interesting interactive sites out there and I've got some example of how I've interacted with them in the tutorial task blog.

To the left is a ranking of current social networking sites. It is interesting to see how trends have changed over time and continue to change.

There are arguments that social networking sites are damaging to youth and their social skills. It has been said that instead of developing real friendships, youth replace this with talking on the internet. They believe that this is good enough and it is no longer necessary to interact face to face to maintain a real relationship. Nevertheless, social networking sites are a good tool to keep in touch and are a quick and easy form of communication.