http://www.facebook.com/ - The most popular of online communities at the moment. It allows people to find others from all around the world and communicate through email, chat, messaging, and sharing videos and pictures on each other’s profiles. Facebook is a very interactive site. People are on it all the time updating statuses, liking other people’s statuses, and checking out new photo’s that people have been tagged in. People can contribute to the site by posting videos of interest, liking pages dedicated to certain topics or people, and by uploading photos. Facebook also has a chat function for people to communicate quickly when both people are online. There is a huge range of games that people can choose to play, and also various quizzes to do for fun.
http://www.myspace.com/ - Myspace is a more themed online community. It has a lot of focus on music and supports a lot of new up and coming bands. Similar to Facebook it lets people communicate from all over the world via messaging and similar methods. Myspace is also very interactive in that people can be seen when they are online and can engage in chat, they can upload videos of their choice and comment on other peoples’ opinions and points of interest. Like I said before, Myspace has a large focus on music so their homepage usually has new posts about concerts and upcoming gigs.
http://www.skype.com/intl/en/welcomeback/ - Skype is a video calling program that connects people from various places to have conversations with or without the video function. It is free to call computer to computer but you can also pay a small amount to be able to call landlines and mobiles from your computer. Skype is not very interactive. It is generally used for specific calls and calls often prearranged. It does have a chat function which I use sometimes when overseas calls fail.
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