Activity 901 (1): My first literature source evaluation

In the first one i will consider how web publishing technologies such as facebook, myspace, friendster, twitter and hi5 might be useful in helping learners in general not focusing on one specific age group.

Strengths and Weaknesses

• Facebook, Friendster, Myspace etc can be useful because it allows people to share personal things about themselves.
• They allow the world to connect onto it and meet and add different friends they know or have known in the past to talk to, chat with and find out about each other.
• They have certain security setting which can be breached to those who are more advanced using computers.
• According to Scott Karp who has connected his Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader together using Publishing 2.0 he claims that the same blog post were found in each of the different sources more then once.
• Nearly every blog post on these sources are imported or taken of or copied from somewhere else.
• On top of that Karp states that his email account is now full due to notifications from Facebook and Twitter.
• Karp claims that all these extra applications are meant to make us people more efficient when in reality what they are doing is making us more inefficient.
• A major point that he points out is that all these applications make us look very superficial and really only demonstrate the fact that we can connect with other people rather then enhance the user experience.
• According to Peter Brantley he claims that in an SCI meeting Scholarly Communications Insitute he met up with several grad students young adults and so on. He claims the only way the say in touch is because at the spur of the moment one of them brought up facebook and since then they only claim to keep in contact through a SCI group they had created on the spot

 Resources

1. Scott Karp (2007) Web 2.0 Inefficiency: Crossposting On Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Etc.Web 2.0 Inefficiency: Crossposting On Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Etc. The (r)Evolution of Media
2. Peter Brantley (2007) Working in Facebook O’reilly Radar