Interactivity
http://www.facebook.com
whilst most online communities connect people annonymously, facebook is a community centred around school, company, and university. The idea is to connect and communicate with people you know. It's interactions are based on sharing information with others, looking up those around you and seeing what one's friends are up to. These communications take place via e-mail or instant two-way chat. the site enables people to exchange photos and express themselves and air their views by leaving comments on other people's blogs. The shift from one person's blog to another is possible via hypertext, which makes it easy to surf through links provided.
http://www.comunita.thekillersmusic.com
This online community for 'The Killers' a rock music band enables fans to comuunicate with each other and leave messages for the band. Users also air their views about the band's new releases. Also, the band members use the site as a blog/diary for their fans. This community serves as a social communication forum for users as fans from all over the world can unite on this site and make comments about their idols.
In answering the debate scholars have about the social significance of interactivity, this site proves that online communities are indeed nothing more than a social meeting place for people of all age groups and gender to discuss issues or cultures that appeal to them.
Hypertextuality
Examples of hypertextuality can be found on the google search engine and the you tube website. As little as a single word search on google, provides links to other similar sites. The same occurs on you tube, as one views an online video, similar video links are given for people to view. Hypertext has certaingly worked for you tube and google as it has enabled other sites and videos have more hits than they normally would without the hypertext link. Well...i suppose hypertext could'nt be that bad afterall, or annoying, at least its not a pop-up!
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