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Cyber Smart: Sticky Sites
Read the following information below. Print out the assignment sheet after reading. It will be due tommorrow.
WHAT IS A STICKY SITE?
Picture a spider spinning its web. If a small insect flies into the web, it gets stuck..That is good news for the hungry spider. Now picture yourself flying around the World Wide Web. You happen upon a site. You find yourself spending a lot of time there and visiting often. You've found a sticky Web site. Sticky sites are popular sites. 
Commercials sites are intended to be popular because then more people will see their ads or brands, feel good about what is advertised, and want to buy the product.
WHAT SHOWS THAT A SITE IS STICKY?
Software programs count the number of individuals who visit, which pages are visited, and in what order. The software program can also tell how long a visitor stays at each page and which ads the visitors clicks on. These measurements help show what parts of the site visitors like most.
WHAT FEATURES MAKE A SITE STICKY?
The exact list of features depends on a person's interests. What you like, your friends may not like. However, all the possible sticky features can be grouped into the three C's: content, customizing, and community.
CONTENT
Content is the stuff to see, do, or find at the site. Content may be factual information (as in an encyclopedia), news (as in a newspaper or magazine), and extras such as free email, games, music, pictures, and jokes. Tons of good content and content that changes often make a Web site sticky.
CUSTOMIZING
Many sites use what they know about you to personalize what you see or do at the site. For example, a site might allow you to change the way its home page looks.
Another site might ask you to register so that when you return, it can give you the paticular content that especially interests you. These kinds of customizing, or personalizing, make the site stickier. 
Another site might ask you to register so that when you return, it can give you the paticular content that especially interests you. These kinds of customizing, or personalizing, make the site stickier.
COMMUNITY
Sites that make visitors feel connected to one another create a feeling of belonging, or community. For example, a game site might post the screen names of high scorers for all to see. A homework site might let kids chat about school or post messages. Other sites might encourage kids to join a club, take part in an opinion poll, or enter a contest. When visitors connect often enough, they begin to care about one another. Making people care about one another, makes a site sticky.
ASSIGNMENT:
Get the handout from Mrs. Schroeder and choose at least two sites from the list below to answer the questions.
STICKY WEBSITES: SCIENTISTS PONDER INTERNET 'ADDICTION'
Stanford University polled nearly 2,600 people in all 50 U.S. states last year to analyze their computer habits. Telephone interviews found that 69 percent of people regularly go online and nearly 14 percent found it hard to stay away from cyberspace for more a few days. Most disturbing, 6 percent of respondents said their personal relationships suffered because of time spent on the computer.
ASSIGNMENT:
PART ONE: Print out the assignment sheet below.
PART TWO:
PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
1)Are sticky websites a good idea?
2) How could a young person get in trouble on a sticky site?
3) Why would a 'sticky site'" want your personal information?
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