Facebook-ing Issues

Facebook Website

I’m sure that this template is no stranger to those Facebook worms . It is fascinating that Facebook can be connected through mobile phone. iMedia Connection (2005) reported that ‘facebook has become a must-have’ for every students. This online social community getting more popular among the youngsters because with a lot of applications in it. According to Nielsen (2007) asserted that ‘ Facebook is the Iron Chef of the Internet’ because of the sudden hyped where everyone has an account for it as well as Nielsen also in Facebook.

Walsh (2006) affirms that multimodal text is referring to electronic, digital texts and visual which have more than one mode. Facebook has come with a lot of features such as sharing photos, videos and others interactive applications with java games.

According to Nielson (2006) readers using the “F-Shape” movement to read on screen materials. Facebook’s template with the F-shape . furthermore, Facebook also applies Parker’s Theory.According to Parker (2003,p. 273) asserted that the placement of the logo must be on top of the left side and it must be consistent in every sites. Furthermore, he also further explained that avoid multi column layouts. In this case, Facebook is using 3 columns where it is easier for users to use and read .Furthermore, there are still ample of spaces besides the contents where Parker’s agreed that need to be generous to the margin and line lengths of the web. Parker further elaborates that the hyperlinks can be included in the left column which serves as a navigation tool bar. This is to assists the users to locate certain applications easily. Nielsen (1997) further explained that the navigation toolbar plays a crucial role where it helps to link from one page to another page. Furthermore, this applications enable the users who share the same interests can be connected easily through hyperlink (Schriver 1997). Nielsen (1997) also agreed with Schriver’s statement where the hypertext links will increase the credibility of the web.

Facebook design layout is simple and yet effective. Using the multi column and frames divided accordingly to the contents allow the users to navigate themselves which application to read first. Therefore, Facebook can be commented as good web usability because of the simple applications in the websites and it also applied the publications and document designs theory.

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Walsh, M 2006, ‘The “textual shift”: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts’, Australian journal of language and literacy, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 24-37 , viewed 20 May 2008 <https://my.unisa.edu.au/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://catalogue.library.unisa.edu.au/cgi-bin/scandoc.cgi?app=11%26folder=11439%26doc=1>