Sue's Social Computing

The number of social computing platforms are growing providing users with different formats and styles of blogging. Most of these platforms provide a way for users to communicate and provide feedback to one another in the comment sections of different posts. More and more of these platforms are also allowing users to create a dialogue with one another by using a messaging service. This allows the users to discuss posts and provide feedback in a more personal and private way.

Facebook changing up feedback

Comments on posts allow the poster to learn what their reader or followers’ opinions and feelings are about different posts. Facebook has recently begun to provide their users with different reactions, instead of just liking which it has been in the past. Now users can “like”, “Angry”, “haha”, “sad”, “wow” and “love” react to post and even the different comments. This way users no longer trapped with hitting the like button on bad news . These different reactions help the poster understand the overall sentiment of their post. How are people reacting to what they trying to get across?

With Facebooks community size growing to 2.41 Billion the simple comment sections became obsolete. With so many users, multiple discussions were happening in a comment section at a time, making discussions hard to follow. To combat this, they introduced the function of users commenting on comments themselves. This way communicating through the comments section became easier to follow rather than having to shift through and look for comments that were relevant to one another to understand a discussion.

Messaging Services