Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Week 5; Entry 2: Fotolog



Fotolog was founded in 2002 by Adam Seifer and is a social networking site for photographs.
Communication – 2 Stars
Fotolog allows users to converse via leaving comments on other users’ photos or by joining groups.
Profile/ File Sharing – 2.5 Stars
When creating your profile on fotolog, you go to the home page and enter your user name, password, email address, birth date, and enter a security question. You then must verify your email address, so the site loses points.
Fotolog allows you to share photos… What did you expect?

Applications – 0 Stars
There are no FREE applications on Fotolog. You can pay $3 to have your photo in a rotation for 24 hours.
Customization – 3 Stars
Fotolog allows users to change their secondary and main colors of their profile page, but need to upgrade (requires texting) in order to get better features.
Notifications – 5 Stars
When you create your profile, Fotolog asks if the user would like to receive a newsletter or promotional offers from fotolog. This option allows the user to choose whether or not they want to be given emails from this site. There is also a link after you create your account to further customize these options.
With 12.5 Stars, Fotolog seems pretty bad… and it is. If you wish to share photos, you could use any general social networking site (Facebook, Myspace, Bebo) to do so. Fotolog was a bad idea, that was poorly executed. I forgot to mention that you have to pay for the upgrade, the gold camera, depending on the increment of time you would like to have the features.

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