THE GOOD AND THE BAD OF HYPERMEDIA

I think a good example of hypermedia on the web is Facebook. It allows everyone to post simple texts, pictures, articles, videos, games, applications, and even music he or she listens to. Even though it may seem overwhelming to navigate, it shows the burbs of postings. For example, it only shows few pictures of the entire album on the wall. It shows a snapshot of the video and a short description of it. It gives you the title and few sentences about the article. It tells you games or apps your friends use with icons. In my opinion, it is instant and presents a lot of information in different formalities with a glance. Users and readers then click links they would like to read further on their own.

A bad example of hypermedia that I can think of is myTC. Even though there are tabs such as “Welcome,” “Courses,” “Community,” “Researches,” and “Search& Help,” there is a lot of information collapsed together on myTC, which makes it difficult to look for ones needed. There is so much going on throughout the home page and it is unappealing to the eye. 

Take this week’s assignment as an example, TC Bookmarks would not be my first instinct to look for Software and Tools to download FTP software. I probably will first go to “TC Services” tab and then “Technology Support.” Besides hard to navigate, many links are either duplicated or not working probably.