When the course first began, I have to admit I was not really impressed by Hypertext fiction. Perhaps it was the content - I have to read something that interests me. Personally I am a SciFI/Fanatasy novel reader and love a book that you can become ‘lost in’ I did not find that with the Hypertexts. They seemed to be short vignettes, especially in 253. It was interesting to read about the characters and I understand that this was due to the 253 words used per character description, but left you wanting more info. Also the large number of characters made it confusing. Perhaps it could have been done by carriage and made it into a chapter, thought his would have ruined the association with a carriage seating. He could have played around with the seating a bit more as a true tube carriage does not have that seating arrangement (from first hand knowledge as I lived in England for seven years, and used the Tube frequently, even stopping at Elephant and Castle).

For the rest of the course, as I play PC and Playstation games so I could easily identify with that part of the course, and I have always found the dialogue with games a useful introduction to give you a feeling of the game and often enjoy the ‘stories’, especially when a comical element is used, as in Ratchet and Clank 2 and 3. I was interested in World of Warcraft, and would probably give it a go one day, but I am always too busy, and have to be disciplined and play games only in the holiday breaks when I am only working and not studying. The BLOGS were new to me even though I had heard about the Northland Girl. I haven’t read blogs, as I wonder how many of them are ‘true’. My 14 year old daughter has joined IMVU, you assume an identity, and you can earn credits to buy scenes, clothes and pets etc. She is aware of predators on the net, which I would have to say is one of the biggest concerns with a computer literate family. She pulled out of BEBO herself as she found it too intrusive to begin with. Clever girl!