2. Facebook user:
Name: Jade Healy
Age: 20
Occupation: Student and Waitress
I only got a Facebook account honestly to keep in contact with
my friends that went to university in England and Scotland and
to more honestly have a little nosey on other peoples profiles.
Facebook for me is something that I never wanted to have but I
can see the positives in it. I no that I like seeing what my friends are up to whilst being away
and seeing pictures of all them. I also like being able to see what is taking place in businesses
and being able to find things I wouldn’t have perhaps found out elsewhere. For example I am
a big fan of Lomography (type of photography) and I follow them of Facebook, from this I
am able to see what’s knew and what people are doing with their Lomo camera’s. This in
away helps me to stay creative with my Lomography and gives me ideas for my own personal
interest. Also helps me by giving me ideas for my university work. It’s good to be able to
join Fan pages and be able to see what artist’s are up tp. I would follow a lot of
photographers, graphic design companies and artist’s, I like to see what they are doing to
inspire me.
Considering that I want to have a career as a graphic designer/ photographer it was pointed
out to me that Facebook is a good way to network. I can use my account to place work that I
consider good enough to put online and let people see what I have to offer. I can go and add
companies and work places seeing what’s happening in their lives and in turn they can see
what I am producing. Plus with other people being able to see that I have placed work online
they could recommend me to others that are looking for someone with my skills. Also if I
wanted to I could set myself up a Facebook promoting my work, which wouldn’t be a bad
idea. I do though try to direct people to the likes of my Blogger, Tumblr, Flicker, Jalbum and
Twitter accounts to see my work my than placing it directly on Facebook.
With my account I know I could use it more but I don’t really like people knowing
everything about me, I know I post about things I want people to know and didn’t mind
people seeing. I know that with my account I could be more proactive with trying to get my
work out there but I don’t think it’s time yet. I also think that Facebook could be a possible
3. way to help me find a placement for next year. I’m not a fan of people that are constantly on
Facebook posting every minute. I have been known to ‘unfriend’ them even if they are one of
my genuine friends. I’m also not one of these people who places picture up of everything
they do. I don’t think you should necessarily post about everything you do and put a picture
up of it, I believe that’s people with to much time on their hands. I do pictures up maybe of
work I’m doing or of things I see that are of interest but I will admit that I have the odd
momently repels and place things up like of a fire in my house.
I mainly only use Facebook on my phone when I’m board. It’s something to fill time and I
don’t really ever use the webpage verse unless I’m in the computer labs at university. I
honestly couldn’t be bothered to be on it when I am the computer because I don’t really like
the layout of social network site. Also when I’m on the computer its not something that
interests me to be on it. I have better things to be doing and I’d rather be doing that than be on
Facebook. I don’t even like the app version but its something to fill time while walking
somewhere or waiting for something.
4. Motivations:
Ability to talk to people for free
Seeing what people are at
Contact with friend (able to see all contact details of friends)
Being able to connect with artists of all types
Filling in time
Task (placing work up)
Promote self (network)
Interface:
Contacts all in place
Phone
Computer/ iPad
Searching
Private messages
Twitter like timeline at side of page (stupid idea)
Listing friends
Apps
Suggested friend
Joining groups
Interactions:
Contacts
Searching of people, business and artists
Access to other blogs linked into their Facebook page
Easy access to friends posts and photographs
Ability to use my phone to go on
Place photos on line
Direct people to my other blogs
Placing links up
Being able to join fan pages
5. Visual:
Layout awful
Phone visual awful
Colour (boarding)
Size
Communication
Graphics
Logo
Blogs
Posts for friends
Others pictures/ work
6. Facebook user:
Name: Scott Galbraith
Age: 35
Occupation: Contract Manager
Scott is my brother-in-law, he’s a 35 year old male and has
far different uses for Facebook compared to myself. Scott is
Contract manager and is currently one of the people
involved in all the road works happening all over Northern
Ireland at this moment of time. Scott is original from
Scotland but moved to Dongel when he was 7 and met my sister, Dawn, when he was 20.
Since my sister was moving to Glasgow at that time for university, Scott went with her and
they lived and worked in Scotland for over 10 years, were Scott worked for one of the biggest
contract companies in Glasgow.
Since my sister and Scott decided to start a family they moved back to Derry. Scott would use
Facebook to keep in contact with his friends and family that are in Scotland. He can see what
they are up to and in turn they can see what is happening in his life back home. It’s also away
to keep in old contacts in the business industry because you’ll never know when you’ll need a
favour. The company in which Scott works for was able to get a few contracts over in
Scotland because of Scott and his business contacts over there.
Scott has an older sister that moved to Australia around the same time that Scott moved back
to Scotland. Scott uses Facebook to keep in contact with her, to show her what is happening
in his life and see what is going on in his sister’s life. Audrey has a son which she would post
about and place pictures up of him to show him growing up to her family back home. In turn
Scott would do the same about my niece so that she and other external family members can
see her growing up. Because of this Scott would place a lot of photos up on Facebook
showing what he and his family would be up to. For instance placing photos up of my niece’s
birthday or her making buns along with him. Facebook is important in this way for Scott
because he gets to keep in contact with his family, family is important to Scott and he doesn’t
want to miss out anything that is happening in his sister or nephews life.
7. Since Scott would be traveling around a lot with his job having to be all over Northern
Ireland over seeing that jobs are done properly and having a busy family life when back
home, he would mainly be on Facebook with his phone. It’s when Scott gets a bit of down
time he would have a flick through Facebook. With the likes of other applications like Skype,
Scott would use this to properly talk to his sister. Facebook is just something that helps keep
in contact but it would be much help to have a proper long conversation with someone.
Scott has become an advent runner and runners in aid of charity. Scott is currently training
for his 7 marathon. He uses Facebook to help rise awareness of the charity he’s running for so
that his friends will sponsor him to do the run. With him being in a running club also, they
can all keep in contact with each other and help one another out with trying to raise money
for the charities they are all running for. They would post a lot of different sites to one
another about running techniques, running gear and videos about things they have found. It’s
away that the community of runners can help one another out and see what the other is doing
with their running. Most of the people Scott runs with are like him, family people and cant
always make it to the running sessions so it’s away to that they can see what was missed and
what they need to do. It’s also away for Scott to see where different runs that are taking place
and if he can take part in them. He would often post and comment on others about running
like his training progress or charity. Its away to gain support for one another and help when
coming up to events like the marathon, seeing where each are staying and when they are
leaving.
Facebook is something that Scot would use when he wants to, he’s not one of them people
that are constantly on it or posting on it. It’s simply just away for him to keep in contact with
his friends and family.
8. Motivation:
Keep in contact with people
To help with getting sponsorship
To find old friends
Enjoys seeing what others are up to
Task to keep in contact with family
Ability to find out information on activities
Interface:
Phone
Computer
Messaging
Forums
Apps
chat
Interaction:
Place links up
Upload pictures
Talk to friends and family
Search for people
Looking at others post and photographs
Finding information on races
Checking running clubs pages
Visual:
Colour (not a lot)
Layout
Blackberry app: scenes to small for the page
Logo
Graphic
