Week 7: Internet

When I searched "social working websites" on wikipedia I found over 12,401 sites. Some of the sites listed that I was familiar with were facebook, myspace, and livejournal. There are a ton of other social working websites that I am unfamiliar also. There is a site called Farmville which allows its users to create farms in which they to manage a virtual farm by planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops, trees, and livestock. Along with their own farm, players can invite their friends to join and be neighbors. Acquiring neighbors has benefits in gameplay — not only can one earn money and experience (by visiting and helping on neighboring farms), but with eight or more neighbors, a player can expand and own more land. I primarily use myspace and I remember losing my cell phone and how my myspace helped me keep contact with people who I really need to get a hold of.