Fletcher Berke
LRC 320
May 1, 2011
1 & 2.
Virtual Space
Yahoo Email
Myspace
Facebook
U of A Email
D2L
LRC 320 Webpage
Created in…
2000
2003
2005
2006
2006
2011
How often used
Weekly
Monthly
Daily
Daily
Daily
Weekly
Hours/Days used
1
Less than 1 per month
1
1
1
2
3. I believe the audience for each of my virtual spaces differs. First, I think that Yahoo email has
an audience that ranges in age. It can be all types of ages from a middle school student, to a
business professional. Myspace and Facebook would have a similar audience. The audience
would range from high school students all the way to parents. However, Facebook use to be
aimed at college students with university email addresses. Obviously, D2L and Arizona email
have an audience that mostly consists of students. As well, many professors also have an Arizona
email and D2l account. I use Yahoo email to mostly communicate with Facebook messages and
spam mail. I would consider my Yahoo email to be a back-up email account. For Arizona email,
I use this email to communicate with professors, potential employers, classmates, friends, and
family; my Arizona email is my primary email account. I do not use my Myspace anymore
because I find Facebook to be a better social networking website. I use Facebook to mostly
communicate with friends and family. The purpose of my My D2L is to communicate with
professors and classmates academically. I believe that the majority of viewers looking at my
virtual spaces consist of friends, family, employers, professors, and students.
4. My Yahoo email is for personal use, Myspace is for personal use, Facebook is for personal
use, Arizona email is for academic/business/personal use, D2L is for academic use, and my LRC
webpage is also for academic use. In regards to my Yahoo email and Arizona email, the
difference between the two are that my Yahoo email is an email I give away when signing up for
surveys, spam mail, and junk mail; basically all the email that serves no purpose to my. My
Arizona email is for a more professional use, such as putting on my resume, and communicating
with professors and students alike. Myspace and Facebook are considered the same because they
are both social networking websites. However, Facebook has become my main social networking
webpage. D2L is not similar to any of my other virtual spaces because it is a network meant for
academic use only. My LRC webpage also stands on its own because I have never created a
webpage dedicated to myself and my school work. I try to keep all my personal information on
my social networking sites and LRC webpage to a minimum. The reason being, employers do
tend to search your name via Google and Yahoo and I prefer not to give out the wrong
impression.
5. As a future teacher, I would have my students create a personal webpage, similar to that of the
LRC webpage I created. There, my students would be able to create pages that display their
hobbies and self-interests. As well, the students could post course material in which they created
for class. By having my students create their own webpage, me as a teacher, could get a better
understanding of my students personalities and work habits. By this, I mean I would be able to
see the colors used, font styles, pictures, and course work. Depending on the effort displayed I
could get a good understanding of each student. I believe it only to be ethical to view virtual
spaces that are relevant to school. The reason being, there needs to be a fine line between
personal information and academic information.
6. As a matter of fact, I have received several emails directly from U of A and my business
program explaining that employers do search social networking pages to look up more
information about their candidates. I have also looked up the proper privacy settings to use on
such social networking pages as Facebook. I have made my Facebook webpage as private as I
feel comfortable. More so, I would not consider my Facebook page to be public because my
Facebook page does not appear on Google if one was to search my name. As well, if you search
my name via Facebook directly, I am only found if we have at least one friend in common. The
only way one is able to see my personal information on Facebook is if I accept their friend
request.