Sunday, October 12, 2008

Using the Internet for transport information

We got an assignment in which we had to calculate the distance from the address ha4 9by in the UK to Alton towers. We had to compare the distance by car and by train. I used the site www.multimap.com and it showed me that the the journey by car would take close to 3 hours and be 151 miles long.

I then used the site www.tansportdirect.info to see how long the train journey would take. The search showed that the journey would take about 4 hours 30 mins which is a lot longer than the car journey. So the sites were helpful in making my decision whether to take the train or go by car

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Facebook group

People who don't sleep enough because they stay up late for no reason

Im a member of many groups on facebook and this is one of my groups. Its just a random group made for fun but it still has a lot of users (275,000+).

Its very popular because many users on it are young who have the same thing in common and they got together to talk about it. It is open to anyone so any user on facebook can join it which is another reason its so popular.

Disadvantages of the group would be that its quite pointless and can waste people's time.