ASSIGNMENT: WEBSITE EVALUATION

WEBSITE EVALUATION: www.myspace.com


Nowadays, internet plays an important role in many sectors such as education, economy, social and politics. Therefore, the progress of its content is rapidly being improved. In fact, there are many websites that provide us with good and bad information. It depends on us to use it on correctly or not. There are several types of website that function in different ways such as social networking, video hosting, trading, wikis, and etc. I would like to evaluate one of these website that prepare users with social networking services called www.myspace.com. This website is commonly well-known among users especially for those who like to make friends and community.

First of all, I would like to explain about the features that available on this website. From what I’ve known, www.myspace.com is one of the web 2.0 that provide users with enhance creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users. In other word, besides gaining information from the web and enjoying the features only, the user also can contribute something such as uploading text, image, audio and video too. Users also can create their cyber community which means that they can makes friends from around the world. Suitable for social-networking, this website provide us with all the attractive features such as upload image and video, sharing information, bulletin board and chat box for users to communicate with their friends. For the new features, users also can put some applications such as internet games to play while surfing the website. Overall, the features for the website are suitable for all type of users.

Then, as the social-networking website, the must be interesting to attract users. For this website, for the main page, it uses a soft blue colour and contains some videos and images that have been uploaded by the registered user of the website. For new users, they must signing up first, login to their account and start to make friends all around the world. After that, the also can customize their own page such as the theme for the layout, put videos and images on it and etc. there are several theme provider that available on the internet and users can use it for free. In my opinion, the layout design for the website is excellent since that it must attract users from different categories and country all around the world.

For the effectiveness, users will not facing many problems in surfing in the website because the interface is very user-friendly and simple to deal with. This website also prepares step-by step instruction on how to upload text, images, and videos on the site. Furthermore, it also provides us instruction on how to change our page layout, to search for friends, to give and reply comment to friends. Once you already expert about the features of the website, you will find out that this website make yourself easier to share information with people and also making friends with others. For me, I will suggest this website to the internet users that interested in socializing and networking and making friends with people worldwide.

However, besides all the advanced features and attractive user interface, there are also problems and issues that need to be solve while surfing in this website. For the registered users, there are certain cases that your account will be attack by virus and cannot be use anymore. So in term of security, www.myspace.com has to upgrade their firewall so that the rights of the users such as pictures and videos will be guaranteed for safe. Other than that, for the social-networking site, there are some types of users that misuse the features in this website such as by uploading pornographic pictures and it is not suitable for certain categories of users. In this case, I think that this website must also update their terms and conditions on uploading materials for the site.

In educational field, www.myspace.com is merely suitable to be use because it includes all the services such as uploading materials, give comment and also information sharing. For example, teacher can use this website to communicate with their students, give homework and assignment, discuss on issues about the subjects, and give notes about the subject without worrying about the time factor and participation of the students.

As a conclusion, for overall evaluation, I kindly suggest this website to be use in educational field with supervision from the teachers so that Teaching & Learning (T&L) process will be more attractive, interactive and can motivate student to learn the subjects without feeling bored and tension. Thank you.