Fark.com

This site, Fark.com, was scarely bare in comparison to CNN.com and MSNBC.com. It wasn't jam packed with news stories, pictures, videos, or even flashy advertisements unlike the other sites. To say the least, it was very minimalistic.

The site did offer several different tabs/sections in which visitors can kind a variety of news stories that range in topic. Some of those tabs are: Not News (which confused me because if this is considered a news site, why would they feature news that isn't news at all?!), Sports, Entertainment, Tech, Politics, Video, Music, Voting, etc.. A lot of those same sections could be found on CNN.com and MSNBC.com. Well, mostly all of them minus the Not News section.

I honestly did not like this site so I really do not think that it did anything...well. If the site is a "news" site shouldn't it be reporting the news, not just taking it from other news sources? Fark.com got a lot of its news from sources like Yahoo News, AP Wire, The Boston Globe, MSNBC, CBS News, and even "some guy" which I'm not too sure as to what that is or means.

As for interactivity between the site and its visitors, it seemed to me that the site did have some interactivity, though not as much as both CNN.com and MSNBC.com. The site had sections to submit news, both site relate forums and personal forums, and even Chat (which is something that I don't remember the other two sites having.)

This site didn't have not one picture on it. Well, besides the one advertisement that I saw at the corner of my eye when I clicked onto the site. Like I said before, it's very minimalistic. Which, I guess could be viewed as a good thing because it allows visitors to only focus on the news, which makes it both easier and quicker to find out what's happening around us. Having less pictures also makes the site less of a distraction.

I don't think this particular site has a writing style since it really didn't have news stories written and reported, but rather news stories that had been previously reported on different news sources. If that's what the site is doing (which in this case, it is) than how could it have a writing style?

Like I said I didn't like this site. I don't think that I would use this site if I were looking for daily news. I would more than likely go to one of the sources they listed as to where they recieved their news from directly.