Facebook project--Tammy

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Profile 1, ZB

Profile

• Picture, body shot, w/face out of frame
  • Under picture is a menu of actions which appear to be automatically part of the profile for each user
  • More Photos of xxxx(2)
  • Read Notes by xxxx
  • View All xxxx's Friends
  • Send xxxx a Message
  • Poke Him!
  • Add xxxx as a Friend
  • Report this Person
• Sex (Male), Interested In (Women), Relationship Status (single), Looking For (Friendship, relationship), and Political Views (Very Liberal), though not required, are included, and are chosen from pre-selected lists.
• Birthday is required
• Hometown is free-text, not required, but included.
• Residence and Room are also fields included in the profile set-up, but this person chose not to use them
• Religious Views is an optional field as well, and the user chose to put the phrase "Que Cera, Cera" in this field

Bemidji State Friends

• 3 are listed with their pictures from their profiles

Friends in Other Networks

• Besides Bemidji State, 3 other institutions in MN are listed

Groups

• 3 groups are listed and link to those Groups' pages: Browncoats: Fans of Joss Whedon's Firefly ▪ Ben Lee rocks my world ▪ VEHSers? only!

Mini-Feed

• Lists latest actions including date and time.
  • Includes new "friends"
  • Includes groups joined
  • Includes edits that ZB has made to his profile

Information

• Contact Info
  • User included email and phone #
  • Other options include AIM, Address, City, State, Country, Zip Code, and website. All of these except for State and Country are free-text fields. ZB chose not to include these.
• Personal Info for this user includes:
  • Activities
    • Includes activities like daydreaming, reading, writing, hackeysack, Tag, blending things, skipping, lying in the sun, lying in the moon, swimming, wandering, climbing, high-fives, sneaking, LAN-Parties (what is this?), Sleeping in
  • Interests
    • Includes Life other people's lives, the Big picture, etc.
  • Favorite Music
    • Lists several groups
  • Favorite TV Shows
    • Lists Cowboy Bebop, Firefly
  • Favorite Movies
    • Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Knockin on Heaven's door, serentity
  • Favorite Books
    • Still life with woodpecker, le grand meaulnes, croptonomicon Anyone's story
  • Favorite Quotes
    • A Poe quote
  • About me
    • "Forgive me, it's two past midnight, and the moon is full."
• All of these fields are free-text. If the user separates the items with a comma, each become a separate tag

Education

• School is filled out automatically for BSU
• Year can be selected from drop down menu; does not appear to be required
• Attended for is given 3 choices: college or Graduate school; this user chose not to provide this info
• Degree field is free-text; user chose not to provide this info
• High School, free-text field, user chose to put their high school name and graduation year here.

Courses

• Course subjects appear on a drop-down menu; they appear to be specific to BSU courses; user enters in # and title and section; on their page, courses are linked to others who are in that course

The Wall

• Contains messages from others. There are 4 messages posted from others. One person has posted twice.
  • One message is a short Thank You
  • One is a short Happy Birthday greeting
  • One is a short greeting
  • One is a longer message that appears to be a chain letter of sorts that is making a play on the word "fuck."

Profile 2, AG

Profile

• Picture, concert
  • Under picture is a menu of actions which appear to be automatically part of the profile for each user
  • More Photos of xxxx(2)
  • Read Notes by xxxx
  • View All xxxx's Friends
  • Send xxxx a Message
  • Poke Her!
  • Add xxxx as a Friend
  • Report this Person
• Sex (female), Interested In (men), Relationship Status (single), Looking For (Friendship, dating, relationship), and Political Views (Liberal), though not required, are included, and are chosen from pre-selected lists.
• Birthday is required
• Hometown is free-text, not required, but included.
• Residence and Room are also fields included in the profile set-up, but this person chose not to use them
• Religious Views is an optional field as well, and the user wrote "believe whatever the hell you want"

Bemidji State Friends

• 53 are listed with their pictures from their profiles, wherease 3 were listed for ZB

Friends in Other Networks

• Besides Bemidji State, 6 other institutions in MN are listed

Photos

• AG has additional sections that ZB doesn't:
  • Photos
  • Notes
    • Note reads "I need a roommate"

Groups

• 3 groups were listed for ZB; AG has 4 groups listed.

Mini-Feed

• Lists latest actions including date and time.
  • Includes new "friends"
  • Includes groups joined
  • Includes edits
  • Includes posts to other people's Walls
  • Tagged photos; ZB did not have these

Information

• Contact Info
  • User included email only
  • Other options include phone, AIM, Address, City, State, Country, Zip Code, and website. All of these except for State and Country are free-text fields. AG chose not to include these; ZB chose not to include these either, except for phone.
• Personal Info for this user includes:
  • Activities
    • Includes SME, BSU (not sure what SME is)
  • Interests
    • snowboarding, music, drinking, snowmobiling, haning out with friends
    • AG's interests are much different from ZB's
  • Favorite Music
    • Makes a general statement that she is "into rock to every kind of metal" Lists several metal groups
  • Favorite TV Shows
    • ZB listed 3, AG did not include this field in her profile
  • Favorite Movies
    • Walk the line, saw 1 & 2, etc.
  • Favorite Books
    • ZB listed a few, AG did not include this in her profile
  • Favorite Quotes
    • "You can fuck with the best, and fuck the rest, but don't fuck with me" - Towtruck; "No Guts, No Glory"; "Where's the fucking tripod in that?" - Al; 11/11/11 11:11:11 Twelve Tribes of Time - Scottie; "Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today" - James Dean; "Whatever's Clever" - Andrew; "Shit Happens" - Everybody
  • About me
    • Gives a lengthy description of her views and life; independent person, distrusts MN government, adventurous, metal music, importance of her family, cant' wait to graudate and leave this town.

Education

• Includes college and high school info; is an IT/BUAD major

Courses

• ZB listed courses, AG did not

The Wall

• Contains messages from others. Where as, ZB had 4 messages posted from others, AG has 20 posts from others.

Profile 3, JK

Profile

• Picture, young man, with people around him in front of a body of water
  • Under picture is a menu of actions which appear to be automatically part of the profile for each user
  • More Photos of xxxx
  • Read Notes by xxxx
  • View All xxxx's Friends
  • Send xxxx a Message
  • Poke Him!
  • Add xxxx as a Friend
  • Report this Person
• Sex (Male), Birthday is required, Hometown is free-text, not required, but included
• Interested In, Relationship Status, Looking For, and Political Views, are not required, are not included.
• Residence, Room and Religious Views are also fields included in the profile set-up, but this person chose not to use them

Bemidji State Friends

• Shows 81 friends, but 6 are listed with their pictures from their profiles

Friends in Other Networks

• Besides Bemidji State, 6 other institutions are listed

Groups

• 12 groups are listed and link to those Groups' pages

Mini-Feed

• Lists latest actions including date and time.
  • Mostly includes new "friends"

Information

• Contact Info
  • User included email addresses and AIM Screenname
  • Other options include AIM, Address, City, State, Country, Zip Code, and website. All of these except for State and Country are free-text fields. JK chose not to include these.
• Personal Info for this user
  • JK did not include any personal information like ZB and AG did

Education

• School is filled out automatically for BSU
• Year can be selected from drop down menu; does not appear to be required
• Attended for is given 3 choices: college or Graduate school; this user chose not to provide this info
• High School, free-text field, user chose to put their high school name and graduation year here.

Courses

• Course subjects appear on a drop-down menu; they appear to be specific to BSU courses; user enters in # and title and section; on their page, courses are linked to others who are in that course

The Wall

• Contains messages from others. There are 10 of 151 posted--way more than ZB and AG.
  • Most are a short greetings
  • One is a longer message that appears to be a chain letter.

Similarities & Differences

• All 3 posted a picture
  • 2 posted pictures presumably of themselves, 1 posted a concert picture
• Their ages are 21, 21 and 18
• AG and ZB provided more personal information than JK
• JK has many more Friends in other Networks than AG and especially ZB
• AG has written much more about herself in her profile than ZB and especially JK
• Content in the Wall range from simple greetings to requests for information/communication to longer messages.
• Written content provided by these 3 users range from full-length sentences (AG) to shorter descriptions (ZB) to minimal use of text (JK)