Topic 5

Where do I exist? – Interact, CSU email, Hotmail, MSN, Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Forums, Gmail account, Online Games.
None of these have exactly the same information, and i believe that they shouldn’t! I don’t want people finding out too much about me, as im afraid of identity theft. My persistent identity shows that im a young female and my first name shortened, plus my lastname. That is about all that is common place across the board. I don’t think that anything else should be displayed across the board as i wish to protect my identity, however if people want to know something about me they should feel free to ask! I will either say yes or no!



Q2:-
A social architect is a person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result for human interaction and behaviours. They facilitate interactions and lead communities online, by planning for interactions. They aid sharing and enabling between users and a site.
Shuffle brain – Objectives, to find embedded icons in a picture, and to do it in record time! Rules of engagement – to upload facebook accepted decent pictures of your choosing and submit them to play with. You can use default pics also. Unique features – it doesn’t just choose the game for you, it lets you create one yourself using your own photos.
The Social architect here is Facebook. They are indded social architects as they have set up the facebook site and facilitate usage, as long as users comply with rules. They have also created a how to guide for how to use the system for first time users.

Whyville – Objective – Design your face, and earn clams (the currency in whyville). You also desing your car and make friends using this avatar. Rules of engagement – im sure appropriate language would be a big one here, but other than that you have free reign on what you look like, and what items you have. There aren’t too many unique features here, as there are many games that do similar, if not the same thing, take neopets(playing games to earn neopoints), facebook fluff friends, the sims, second life etc etc. They all do basically the same thing. Im not sure ‘WHO’ is the social architect, but i believe they still are one, as they have facilitated the use of whyville, with logins and password, and also have guidleines to stick with.