You've done it - you've reached Week 8!!
Well done to everyone who has battled on bravely through the Quest.....who else do you think could benefit from it?
This Week you can relax and socialise online with your commrades through Facebook.
Social Networking (sites): The most visible form of Web2.0 at the moment. Free websites allow you to set up a private/public persona online within their protected network and you socialise/network/build contacts thorough this service. Can have lots of add-ons like Facebook or be a more basic messaging service like Twitter or Bebo. It’s your circle of friends/acquaintances/business partners as an online interconnected community.
Facebook: this is a free site that allows you to set up an online profile (or presence) which you then use to keep in touch with friends by posting news/diary entries, sending messages, joining interest groups, sharing pictures and inviting them to play games- all within the Facebook site itself. Once you are a member you can use a search box to find people by name and send them a message (or ‘poke them’ to see if they want to keep in touch). MySpace is a similar social site that has a slightly younger user-base and is known as an advertising platform for musicians and unsigned bands. If you're not sure which site would suit you (or your students), Digizen has produced a really useful online evaluation chart comparing many of the leading social sites.
www.facebook.com*
History: launched in 2004 (originally just for Harvard students), access only to other educational institutions in 2005, availability extended to everyone in 2006, has been blocked in several countries, (Iran, Syria), as of 2008 profiles can be completely deleted , 7th most used site in the world.
Example of: blogging, micro-blogging, social networking, file share, social book-marking
Number of users : apporx. 70 million
Why use: Free, unlimited photo storage, can link to blogs/delicious/email address books/IM, can have hidden/private groups
Good for: networking, professional groups, event organising, media sharing, sharing photos with non-members, micro-blogging, adding maps, keeping in touch with people.
Bad for: profits made through advertising, concerns over data-mining (although this is lessening), who’s looking at your profile? (potential employers), some unclear privacy settings and advertisement opt-out, limited customization.
Getting Started:
Click on 
and Set up a Facebook Account
Make a Friend request
Upload Photographs
Join a Group by Searching or by Invitation
Don't forget to:
- Note your username and password if you set up a Facebook account.
- Record what you achieved this week on your blog and tag your post as 'Web Quest'.
- CELEBRATE!!!
If you get stuck reply to the Quest Post to get help from other participants or see the guides on theLibrary Moodle Pages
* The use of facebook.com is only a suggestion. Please feel free to explore social networking through a meebo, bebo, twitter or LinkedIn account.
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