Virtual Communities where people are bought together.

Virtual Communities where people are bought together

An example of this is Facebook; people can get in contact from all over the world with the people who are signed up to Facebook. However it depends on whether people can see others profile due to the account settings that they have it on. Facebook has over 1,000,000,000 registered users across the world. Facebook brings people together across the world, a good point about this is that you can find people who you were close with a while back and add them and instant chat them to see how they are doing. However a bad thing is that you don’t know who you’re adding. People pretend to be someone who they are not. This causes problems with Facebook. You can block your account so hat only your friends can access you timeline and see what is up to date or you can make it so everyone can see what you post 24/7 and access your timeline to see where you are from. .  This is a good and a bad thing because you therefore don’t know who has been looking at your account and finding out where you are from. On Facebook there are loads of different ways of communicating with people, you can post, send messages, visually talk to someone via webcam, audio etc.

Another site that is a common virtual community is twitter. This also brings people together including celebrities. Everyone who has twitter can access each other’s page and see what you have been posting. Facebook is a good social website and allows you to search anyone who is signed up to Facebook but another advantage of it is that some people have their profile on ‘Friends’ so if you are not their friend on Facebook then it will not allow you to look at their pictures, timeline or you cannot message them either so you can’t communicate with people over Facebook if their profile is on private.

A bad point about communication over the internet is for example Facebook. When communicating with a friend over instant chat you cannot be sure that it is 100% them. Another bad point about Facebook is the cyber bullying through the internet. Cyber bullying makes it easy for those to send horrible messages to people on the other end of the chat without having to say it to their face. However another good point is that it can bring people of a long distance relationship closer together. If younger people have accounts on these socializing sites they have access to anything and can easily add someone who they think they know but they don’t.