Tutorial Six - The internet and online communities

In this blog I will be looking at internet sites around personal occupation. The personal occupation I will be focusing on, is one i love - shopping. Below will be websites based aorund this particular personal occupation that appealed to me
http://www.garypeppervintage.com/home.html

http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?storeId=12556&catalogId=33057

http://www.lavintage.com/

The intended purpose of the above three websites, is to attract a customer to buy the websites online merchandise.
Because these websites have specific intended purpose (to shop and  get customers to purvhase) there is limited social interaction availabe. However all websites offer the oppurtunity to be a member of that website, enabling the viewer to buy online. Some websites such as gary pepper vintage offer the chance to follow this website on facebbok and ;tweet't about this site using twitter as a core. Buying and shoppingonline is the way people can contribute online by browsing clothes and adding garmets to the 'shopping cartt' where after selecting garmets, customer will enter postal adress where purchased items will be delivered. People use websites liek these to give them a wider range and in most cases (a more unique) option to shopping, also online shopping can be doen world wide - there is no boundary. Information is presented in basic form where it is an online customer experience.
This is a quote from gary pepper vintage shopping website, where they are discussing the model and ambassador of the website "The Gary Pepper girl is a Japanese popstar. Famous in her own right, admired by all. She is fun, quirky, confident, passionate, exuberant, with an eclectic sense of style. A chameleon at heart, she changes her spots as many times as she can and makes friends wherever she goes. Life motto? The glass is half full. The Gary Pepper girl is really one of a kind" (Gary Pepper Vintage, 2010).
Possible ethical issues around these websites can include, customer unhappiness. For example; customer ordering a garmet online and it being marked or damaged when arrival to their postal adress or simply the garmet not fitting as desired.
benefits of these websites include - Versatility, more options when shopping, not having to depend on the same shops in your town or city. World wide - these websites are accessable all over the worl, all that is needed to log on to these website and utilise them is internet connection.

References:
Gary Pepper Vintage. (2010). Retrieved from  http://garypeppervintage.blogspot.com/ on the 30/03/2011.