The online community I will be looking at is Facebook (www.facebook.com).
Facebook is a free access social networking site. It is a very popular site and is a great way of keeping in touch with friends and family especially if they are overseas. Users can join different networks that are organised by areas such as country, region and school. Users can add other people as friends who can then contribute to and make comments on their profiles. All users can join groups or add their own group on a particular topic or area that interests them. Facebook allows users to contribute through posting information for everyone to see, sending private messages and posting photos.
Facebook is a free service that allows members to interact with other members of the service. The service can provide information on particular topics (depending on groups or networks that have been added). As with many social networking sites, Facebook has had a number of ethical issues that have arisen, many due to the fact that users can post information such as their name, date of birth, address and occupation. Some of these ethical issues include identitiy fruad, privacy issues and sexual predators.
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