Synopsis

This project is an online based application, hosted at http://www.mytweetface.net/; enabling users ease to access the application at their own convenient time. I was inspired to do this project by reviewing on the current issue in the society on cam-whoring and also social networking.

Cam-whoring is fast becoming a pandemic issue all over the world; the definition of Cam-whoring could be different base on geographic regions and cultures. In Malaysia where the culture is more conservative, someone who Cam-whores are refer to individuals who post pictures or videos of themselves on the Internet to gain attention. The term disparages those who post pictures of themselves at inappropriate times or places, and usually implies self-absorption. Other than that, people who enjoy Cam-whoring usually like to seek attentions and will use online social networking services such as Facebook, MySpace and Friendster as their medium.

Social Networking is fast becoming a day to day activity in our daily life base on the current trend of Information Communication Technology (ICT). According to a research, the most popular social networking site is Facebook.com with 250 million users and over 10 billion photos shared globally. The photo sharing feature has become the main attraction of online social networking services and proved by the statistics of 3 billion photos being uploaded every month on Facebook.

As for the design structure of the application, users need to click on the “START” button on main page to start using the application. Then, a screen with an image which is captured by the individual’s webcam will be shown and they can click on the image to change the effect, when they are happy with the desired outcome, they can capture the image and continue with the next step.

In the next stage, the image that has been captured will be loaded, so that the user can edit the value of the brightness, hue, saturation, contrast, alpha and also the threshold. In this stage, they just need to put in the value in the box provided and proceed if they are satisfied with the result.

At the final stage, users need to choose the channel that they want to share their image with others. There are two channels provided; Email and Facebook, the email will be sent using the function of PHP Post via GMail SMTP Server, while to share on Facebook.com, users will be directed to Facebook connect function to link their image to Facebook.

In the future, the enhancement that will take place is an upgrade of this application into a Facebook Application. By combining these two main aspects of social networking and cam-whoring, there is tendency that this application will attract more users because it is really helpful for them to update their photos in social networking site.