Group work continued...

During this weeks lesson we each showed the group our forums...how we have progressed, our contribution and feedback. We discussed the positives and negatives of each forum, and discussed what we each could right on our wiki page....

I explained that my forum www.soapforum.co.uk was very boring in the sense of presentation (very plain no imagery) and that it feels as if you didn gain very much. I decided to join Channel 4's official Hollyoaks Forum (http://community.channel4.com/groupee/forums/a/cfrm/f/8420074863) as it was very colourful and you get incentinves such as getting to choose an avatar, and you can gain stars the more you post...which made you feel more accepted into the forum the more you participated (working your way up the heirachy of popularity, acceptance and knowledge)....but it did have opening hours between 8.00am- midnight, therefore being highly monitored, and gives the insight that many of its users are young, who go to school or college etc.

However, when trying to apply i had to wait for an email which would enable me to activate my account, but i did not recive it no matter how many times i requested it. I then tried again to apply using a different email. This time i received the email to avtivate my account and confirm my request, andi thought GREATTTT!!! it worked...but when clicking the link it merely stated Thank you for activating your account, and that they would get back to me to confirm my account and accept me, and that i can look around the forums as a guest, but this restricgted me from posting.

This shows just how secure Channel 4 are with there sites, and how strict they are on not just letting anyone join there site. Though it does make a big inconvenience for the user. So instead i will stay with soapforum.com

...I have started to enjoy soapforum.com more the more i post, eagerly awaiting replies and views, and in a weird way start to feel as if these people i am communicating with are my 'friends' as we have the same things in common such as favourite characters, views on storylines etc, and share ideas and gossip on up coming story plots.