Workshop --- Menu Driven Identities

The sign up of Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, the categories are available for users to input the essential information such as first name, last name, preferred content, country, gender and date of birth. In addition, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail are explains the real identity. It needs to input the real information such as name, gender and country etc. On the other hand, the Second Life gameworld‘s just available for users to input the first name. The Second Life gameworld is dissimilar to the Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, as the Second Life’s users can to input the false information such as name for the gameworld. So, the Second Life is the absence of real identity in gamewould.

In the website of the Lavalife's, if we want to be a member, the users need to input fulfill on the essential information such as country, city, gender and date of birth etc. This website can see the majority of the background photos are western men and western women. Also, the members are the most of western people and simply a few members who come from Asia. So, this website should be improves more members for the Asian users choose.