Assessment 3 - Set up and use social media

tools and apps

Overview of 3 popular social media tools

If you have not heard of the wildly popular website YouTube, you may be inexperienced on the internet.

This site has given Internet users a chance to broadcast videos that they made or found on the web. You can use the YouTube site to perform several functions. Continue slides to learn how~

Step 1

Step 2 Account Creation

Step 3 Filling in detailed information

Step 4 Verifying account

Step 5 Customising account profile

Step 6 Getting started

Step 7 Getting started – subscribing to a channel

Step 8 Getting started – visiting your channel

Step 9 Uploading content - among other things

Step 10 - Sit back until the process is finished and enjoy your

successfully uploaded content on YouTube

Evaluations - YouTube Moderately easy process to create an account

Enables users to browse from a huge range of collections of hundreds of channels and thousands of videos using the search bar

Simple and creative way of providing users with features to comment, rate videos, like and all those sorts of things

Upload your own content with a click of a button

Facebook

While YouTube is a serious contender for social networking services specifically media sharing Facebook is the best thing ever since honey & sliced bread

In this day and age Facebook has made transformation and a major impact into our daily lives - connecting people from around the globe by a few clicks of the mouse

Creating an account

3 steps to finalisation – Finding friends

3 steps to finalisation – Profile Information

3 steps to finalisation – Profile Picture

Facebook Wall/Homepage

Adding people

Liking a page and Joining a group

Maximising security

Evaluations of Facebook

Simple Account creation – 5 minutes tops in process

Easy and fast Find Friends feature taking easy into a whole another level in finding friends by a few simple clicks

Lots of contents, features and also updates promising revolvingly better privacy

High customisable profile settings and privacy settings turning it into a relatively safe zone

Internet Forums\Message Boards

In this context I will be using a specific Gaming Internet forum as an example based on my experience as a quite active member of the community I will list them step by step

Step 1- Account Creation

Fill the rest of the blanks

Hit Complete Registration when done

This message pops up and states that an email has been dispatched in need of verification

Step 2 Post Verification

Step 3 User Control Panel

Step 4 Acknowledging the website

Step 5 Basic communication Starting a Thread

Posting in others’ thread

Replying to posts/messages

Evaluations of the

PlayDota Forum

Registering an account is fast – quick sign up which does not require verification if you are only viewing/lurking the boards

Loaded with a lot of functions and information regarding the game per say

Warm community based on experience

Simple webpage layout and a quite nice looking graphical layout which makes it interesting

Frequently updated