Social Networking Applications: Bebo, Messenger...

Social Networkings

www.Bebo.com (21 million users)

www.Cyworld.com (in South Corea. it is integrated with the mobile phone)

www.Myspace.com (there is more advertising)

They are useful for social contact.

www.Singinfool.com you put your favourite videos there and you share them. This one is the one made for the older. The other ones are for people from 10 to 22 approximately.

www.Bebo.com

You can see some photographs. They show the photographs of the people who have allowed so. They have to be over 13 to use it or at least they have to declare so.

It is banned by schools in England and Ireland.

"skype" is free telephone calls. You can buy credit to phone someone who has not got skipe. There you have a username. You can put in your photograph...

Every computer has an IP address (Internet protocol=a number) They know where you are when you are working with it. Pornographers were the pioneers of this sort of stuff. It is easy to find your address. They were the pioneers of pop-ups too.

They pioneer cookies. They can look at what you are interested in unless you are protected.

There are advertisements.

You have to invite someone into your website. That's how people protect themselves. There have just been two incidents with 21 million users. When someone shows a picture, yu can just see some information, not all the webpage. It is not a way of making new friends, but a way of keeping friends in contact.

You can have a link to the Bebo site of a friend.

There are also "quizzes". Could we use this in the English class?

There are four people working for Bebo. They earn their money through advertising...

When you register, they ask you about your hobbies, favourite films, sports... You can even choose "Make my Homepage visible to everyone" or "Feature me on the Bebo.com homepage from time to time".

They also ask you your address, phone number... If someone invites you, then you invite them and they can see your information. It's the heaven of pedophilians.

"Join your school" (or your college) is what launched Bebo.


Language Learning Potencial:

We could use these social networking, but a more secure one. We could use them for chatting in class (in English, of course).

Skype:

It's totally free. Exceptional quality. With a webcam or a video you can use it. All you need to do is to download it.

"redeem a voucher" means buy a phone credit, and it is just need when the other person doesn't have skype.

If you want to phone someone, you need to know his/her username.

You just need headphones with microphone. You don't need a camera, but you could add a photograph, use a webcam...