Layout seduces writing

Why do people like to write some things and not other things?

I have noticed that the layout and the ease of writing something makes people want to write some things more than others. Social networking sites usually become successful from their ease of writing on them and of course popularity. But I am not going to look at popularity now, I am going to look at layout.

For our studies at university in various subjects we have been given tasks to create a portfolio and particiate in discussion boards. However the layouts and ease of using these primative blogs and forums are very inefficent (except for ICT which allowed us to make this blog ^.^). If you come up with a cool idea, by the time it takes to get on to the supplied blog or forum, the idea has gone. Additionally, just to read through the posts is tedious and annoying because they don't follow on to each other and take up only a small portion of the screen that is hard to view.

On the other hand, social networking sites (E.g. Facebook) have layouts that encourage you to write on them as soon as you log in. They have a big text bar that yells out, "Write something! Write something!" Additionally, all the text from the previous bloggers flows smoothly after it and groups together to make reading it an enjoyable and exciting experience.

In conclusion, I think that universities should be more open to allow students to use other social networking sites for their assessed projects or improve the acient sites that they currently use.