The users have the option of ‘logging in’ (using the username in which they use when they are participating in the discussion boards which are a huge part of this website, I will talk about this aspect of the site shortly) If they log in, they can post their comments using their username, or alternatively they can post a comment anonymously without logging in.
I think that by using the anonymous option, if this was available everywhere on the website, it would be hard to build a sense of virtual community and it would also be equally as hard to trust those who where having an input – as sometimes you get people posting abusive, random, silly comments – because they can, they don’t have to deal with the consequences because no-body knows who they are or even a made up identity they have got, people purely just know them as ‘somebody’ and that’s it.
Back to the article, it’s very small in forms of how much text there is. The fact the article is so small, I feel demonstrates that the articles are not the main appeal of the website; I know this is the case as I have used this website before. The forums are the main section of the website.
Next to this article are more picture hyperlinks, which are related to the topic of the article! You can go from this page onto more pages about beauty at special events, such as Oscar’s hair and beauty 2008, http://www.handbag.com/beauty/oscars-red-carpet-beauty-hairstyle-Marion-Cotillard/gallery. I think this helps keep the users on an extractive interactive path of something that they are interested in - after all they must have been semi-interested in the topic to have clicked on the first hyperlink? It also shows that the website has lots to offer the user.
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