DGTL12002 Week 2

Reputation and User Interface and Customisation

When it comes to the reputation of the users on Facebook, that really comes down to how involved in the sight you really are. When you are just sticking to your own crowd and people you know, you'd probably think the reputation of Facebook is just great! But if you delve deeper into the world of Facebook, and start looking into the user run groups and pages that are everywhere, your thoughts may quickly change.

Most general users on Facebook ARE great, they have excellent internet practices, stay secure and treat everyone with the same respect you'd give in a real world situation.
But then there are those few that just want to watch the world burn. They are everywhere in life, but the anonymity that Facebook grants to people running groups and pages, allow these people full reign without them coping any personal flack from users who are offended or disgusted by their pages.
There are many Hate groups and Pages specifically aimed at displaying pornographic images throughout, and this is disturbing when you consider that children as young as ten can easily create and use their own Facebook pages.

On this matter thou Facebook is it's own undoing, especially with Hate pages. These is a report function to report matters such as this to Facebook moderators, but unless the Hate or discrimination or whatever is aimed directly at you, Facebook will do no more than give you a spiel about freedom of expression and ask you if you would like to block the page, whilst still leaving it out there to spread it's nastiness to the world.


When it's comes to user interface and customization, Facebook has always been in the limelight of controversy. The populous of users seem to dislike Facebook's constant re-designing of it's user interface, and with every update, they cop a lot of flack from the general consensus.

When you think about it thou, without Facebook's constant redesigning and updating, the site would quickly become boring and would even eventually effect it's useability, with the web being able to support faster, better layouts but with Facebook trailing behind with outdated and even unsupported formats.

Personal Customization wise, you can't do much, bar change your profile picture, and your cover photo if you use the new Timeline layout. This lack of user customization should not be viewed as a bad thing thou. At the top of it, it's cuts out competition between users to have the coolest looking page, and with the constant and consistent loading of code from page to page, the site runs smoothly and never encounters any problematic user code, a problem which MySpace dealt with infinitely.