My part in the 1st group work assignment

Problems and solutions for Parts 1&2

Problems with professional/personal Facebook interactions

• Posts both personal and professional from one Facebook profile
• Nothing to separate/distinguish between which are professional and which are personal posts
• Lengthy process you have to go through to update takes time which sports star might not always have enough of to waste with updates which results in their page going unused and fans can’t keep up to date with what’s going on

Patterns in Facebook interactions

• Not a lot of updates on average
• No steady line of use
• Not a lot of updates to do with his swimming career
• Posts a lot about golfing and Ravens (American football team)

Solutions

• Could have separate areas on the one profile, one for more personal posts and one for professional posts, e.g. two separate tabs so you can select which area you are interested in keeping up to date with
• Maybe professional/personal posts could be posted in different colours as a way of telling the difference at a glance
• Could have automatic check-in’s with generic status at certain places of interest e.g. Golf course could be automatically checked in and say Golfing today with friends etc. or if he’s training he could be automatically checked in at his regular training spot
• Could pick up when he mentions training or competing that a direct link to a live T.V feed or news website with info about the contest on it, could be automatically updated.