3 Sites with User Content

1. DenDen
This website offers users a forum to share their views and opinions about the music industry, focusing mainly on the Spice Girls, this forum has been the central location for the latest goings on and rumours for the band for the last 7 or 8 years.
The site has strict copyright rules and so therefore a lot of it is fan made content where a fan has found a rare piece of music, video or created a remix or video to share within the community.
There's a lot of support and loyalty on the site which is reflected through sharing the content with each other. Overall, quite a nice site to keep in the know and get frustrated by all the rumours.

2. Mod The Sims
A great social networking and sharing site where users can upload their own Sims objects and skins to the server and other users can download and add it to their games.
Users are able to search for specific items to add to their game or they can submit their own. It's also a place for people to chat and share their own stories of the game and get help and advice.
The site design is quite bad, with adverts overcrowding the website and various design aspects such as the very square like features make the website look flat and unbalanced.

3. Share My Lyrics
This site is soley based around lyrics and poetry. Users can sign up to the website and submit their lyrics for other users to read and rate at their leasure. It's an interesting alternative to making a music video or writing an actual song as the user only needs the access to the internet and some creative flow. Useful for people who need some inspiration when writing music or just want to get their stuff seen. The website looks quite simple to use and fairly colourful. There is also a forum for users to log in and talk about collaborations, writing songs and getting noticed. An interesting concept, however I'm unsure as to how successful this site can get due to its text based nature.

Identities Exploration

As part of the identities module for next term, we've been told to find out what self identity means to us, and here's the beginning of a picture of various things I'm going to be working on.

The red symbolises the empowerment and feel I have over my future right now, being a successful colour and the darker tones give it a more sexual feel to it. The picture of me posed like that represents the sensitive side, but the bright colours show my more excitable personality. The Spice logo is part of what make me me. Growing up through the Spice phenomenon, it gave me a light into different people and to become a more sensitive person, so I felt it important to add it in here.