This document outlines plans for developing a social media application. It discusses including features for communication like messaging, video/voice calls, and custom emojis. The app will allow sharing updates with friends or publicly. Revenue will come from advertising, with costs depending on the type of ads and placement. Legal issues around privacy, copyright, and accessibility are addressed. Guidelines from organizations like W3C and WaSP will be followed for website standards and terms of use.

2. SIGN UP PAGE

3. OH snap
Jinx
HOMEPAGE

5. COMMUNICATION WITH OTHERS
One of the main features that will be within this
application is that the users will be able to
communicate with all of their friends and family in
ways of messaging and even calling within the app.
Throughout the app there will be several features that
will be able to be used in order have a laugh with other
users. Some of this will include the use of filters, video
calls, voice calls and a strong partnership with other
organizations will allow the users to make their kind of
emoji's that they will be able to use as in-app purchase.

6. WHAT THE PRODUCT MEANS AND
WHY PEOPLE SHOULD USE IT
For this app I am looking at creating my very own social media platform, in this the
people using this will be able to share and broadcast what they are thinking or doing
throughout their day etc. this can be shared with either just friends or everyone who
chooses to view your story.
People who should download and use my app because it will be a combination of
more popular social media platforms commonly known as Facebook and Snapchat.
This will mean that they will be able to share their own thoughts and give everyone an
image or video of where they might be or what they are doing any time during the
day.

7. SUMMARY OF PAGES
Looking over both of the drafts they are going to be
very similar due to the very similar intentions with
communication with others. To make my app more
distinctive I will be making my logo a lot more
vibrant and rememberable than others that are
currently at the top for most popular social media
platforms for example Instagram, Snapchat and
Facebook.
Secondly, the sign up pages, will be colorful and will
be very similar every time when they comparing to
others. The only change that will be made will be
the choice of colors for this.

8. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
Copyright Issues: Social media users need to be more aware, regardless of who they are, of what they post online on any social media website. They
should be more aware of what they post, just in case they end up infringing Copyright on some content, and then facing legal action against
themselves. For example, on YouTube, a user cannot use a song within their own video for more than 30 seconds, therefore placing themselves in a
potential risk. There is however a way of overcoming this and making sure that as a user of YouTube, they are protected, and quite simply this is by
gaining the permission of the owner of the song, to use it in their video.
Open Meeting Act: The open meetings act ensures that government decision making and legislation should be made publicly. The communications
which take place on social media platforms have now gotten to a stage where they pose a threat or can introduce conflict within Open Meetings
because it is such a new form of communication and the court cannot provide the guidance for the use of social media, by these people.
Freedom of information act: Any information that goes onto or is used in social media and posted online or publicised in general, can be
used and seen by the Government, they can see and state/control what each and every single user posts online.
Discrimination: Many people across the world do not have access to the internet, and so do not have access to social media. People using social
media sites or apps(on mobile devices)m should try and communicate with the whole world, and do this using more than one media platform to do so.
Privacy: Many social media platforms, now allow their users to set their own Privacy settings, which allows them to control a number
of things, for example, who views their profile, who can post comments and other content on the profile, and who can search for
their social media page or channel. This is the one main way in which users can protect their privacy on social media sites, and
control who does what on their user profile, as these settings are created and personalised for each individual user of the social
media, therefore remaining personal to them and able to be more ‘Private’ than other people on these sites.
https://www.in.gov/ig/files/Julie_Tappendorf.pdf

9. GUIDELINES AND CONDITIONS
The web standards project (WaSP):
When looking at the terms of guidelines and conditions, I would look into using WaSP, due to them fighting
for standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-
term viability of any site published on the Web.
https://www.webstandards.org/about/index.html
The world wide web consortium (W3C):
I would then use the W3C as they work together, in order to develop web standards for websites and such
relevant things. Their mission is to “Lead the Web to its full potential”.
https://www.w3.org/Consortium/
Terms and conditions:
I would go through the standard, necessary ones, and also look at the secondary feature, therefore have to
imply more conditions of use and so on, because of this feature. When we look at terms and conditions of
already existing Applications and Social Media Websites, we would see that they go through the standard rules
of the app/social media, and also the rules that users have to follow if they do choose to sign up and start
using the app/ website.
https://www.spotify.com/uk/legal/end-user-agreement/

10. REVENUE OF APP
In order to make sure the application is able to make any kind of profit from the use of the
app, also having people download the app, the use of adverts will always be most reliable
source of income. I will have to pay a certain cost to be able to advertise my app as it
depends on what kind of advert I will be looking to use, and where the advert will be placed,
but also how big the advert will be. There are varied costs with adverts depending on those
factors. In order to be able to gain downloads, site visits and uses, and also gain a significant
amount of Subscriptions, I will have to advertise the product really well, and think smartly
about how I will advertise it, and where.
Social Media Advertising:
The ads can vary in cost dependent on the factors discussed above, and also on the Social
Media Agency that you choose to advertise with. It varies with a Social Media Agency
because it depends on the experience level they have, the size of the Business that you are
(How big the app is or social media is), the suite services you wish to hire (and many more
factors). Social Media Advertising can cost between $1,000 to $20,000 a month. Source:
https://www.contentfac.com/how-much-does-social-media-marketing-cost/
The reason to why I have chosen this type of revenue source is because I feel that it will be
the most effective and it will hold most relevance to the targeted audience for my app as it
will consist of the favored clothing brands for example Nike.

11. CONCLUSION
In conclusion, we should see that throughout this LO, this had proved to be very challenging
at times due to the fact that we had to make our own app and or website from scratch. Even
though I used Snapchat as a back up and outline for my ideas there were still countable
times where I was lost for ideas trying to make my own app different so that it would unique
in comparison to others such as Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat. Trying to keep it
simplistic, yet professional and clean is one of the best things on it as it created a challenge
when I jumped from the original drafts, to what would be the Final versions of the
Photoshop Drafts, which would end up being the final look of the app itself if it was to be
made. The feature that I had to look into the most was the ‘Connect With Friends’, as it
requires both users to have a connection at the same time, and its not actually been done
before, therefore there was not much research or ideas to use and look into more.