Caroline+Phillips+Lost+Media+Fandom

After looking at about 4 sites I found one that I liked the best: Lostpedia The site's URL is http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

After going around the site I have found a lot of interesting components that it offers.

First of all, this site is friendly to users all over the world. It offers information from many different languages.



There is a whole section devoted to all the characters in LOST, including the main characters, supporting characters, flashback characters, flashforward characters, survivors, The Others, Dharma initiative, and Kahana characters. Not only does it list the characters, but it gives their location (whether that be on the island, off the island, deceased, missing, or defected). Then, once you have chosen a character you want to further investigate and learn more about, you can click on them.

Not only are you given a brief synopsis of the character's life, but there is also a day by day (usually going by season) in depth analysis of the character. Kate, for instance, starts with her childhood, to her murdering Wayne, to her help from Cassidy, to her return to Iowa, to her marriage to Kevin, to her New Mexico Bank Robbery, to her capture in Australia. After all this pertinent information, we are given a play by play of her actions on and off the island as they occur in the episodes in the present time.



Today, I decided to participate in one of the chat forums. It was regarding the latest episode where Sawyer finds out he is one of the contender's for being a leader on the island. I posted my opinion. Then I received an email every time someone else posted after me. After a while it got annoying because my inbox kept getting flooded with notifications that people had posted!

After posting on LOSTPEDIA, I got the following message warning me that spoilers are not permitted. I have tried to post on some forums and it won't allow me to sign in. My comment was not a spoiler by any means, but I am hoping my account was not suspended. I'll let you know!



After posting more comments on Blogs, I started to get bored. I realized that What I Really wanted to be commenting on and reading was the Forums. They are way more up to date and more interesting. I tried to comment many times, as I noted in my practicum project presentation, but wasn't allowed to. Finally, I realized that I needed to complete a different registration to be able to participate in the Forum. I completed the registration after answering a few short questions, and am on my way to becoming a member of the forum!

Unfortunately, I got this message today when I tried to log in.



I am extremely upset. Apparently people have been posting too many spoilers on the forums. This is not allowed on the site whatsoever, so because of other people's mistakes I am not able to participate in the forum until after the season finale. This is soooo annoying! Oh well, guess I'll have to go back to reading more of the blogs.

After being upset about not being able to participate in the forum, I went back to the original Lostpedia website and looked over the things I WAS able to participate in. I decided to become a fan of Lostpedia on facebook, and now I can join in discussions and post comments on there, further expanding my participation in the site.



So I just found another blogsite that I love!! I used to read the Lostpedia blogs, which are long and cover many theories. However, now I realized that There are community blogs as well. I have been participating in those. Already, I have commented on many different blog posts, by other people who are users, just like me.

Also, I just created my very own first blog! I had a question about something I had seen on LOST last week, and after talking to some people on the site and figuring out how to post a blog, I did it!!

If you look back up on my page, after my first comment I posted as Csphillips06, you can see that it says 1 in the upper right hand side. Now, I realize that means that was the first comment I created. It documents every time you participate in commenting or blogging. I have so many posts already and I love knowing how much I'm participating and adding to the site. Also, i found out that if you like somebody's comments or are intriguied by them and just want to know more about what they are participating in, it is possible to search this.

Ok So I am obsessed with these community blogs. There are so many theories and little questions for you to think about and then everyone is able to participate and share their ideas. I have already racked up so many contributions. There is a page with all of the things you have contributed, i'm up to 29!



Finally, over the past few days I have been participating in tons of posts! I have finally made 45!!



I have commented on so many things, and feel like I am a part of the site now.

Someone even made a post about all the abbreviations that everyone uses, I feel like a real member of this community finally!!