edmodo.com

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Strengths:
Colloabrative; easy to connect with students and large groups of people Ideal for education purposes in the sense that you can easily assign codes for your students Can keep students up to date with their work and deadlines, etc. Signing up is easy as well as the actual program itself

Weaknesses:
It is mostly for education use so it is not for average people In order to sign up, you must be in association with a class, and if you don't have any association with a class, you can't sign up There is a maximum of 140 characters to type The privacy settings are not secure

I give this product a 3. It is a great idea, but being a student, I wouldn't like using this product to interact with my teachers and classmates.