LDS.NET

Two main points:

1. The actualization of potentialities brings happiness.
2. Ethos, pathos and logos help create persuasiveness for a website, which will bring users.

So... a good social website will be one  that allows people to optimize potentialities and therefore find happiness.  The website's tools or forums would be the potentialities and the communication that would result would lead to happiness. The website designers job then, is to create the type of potentialities that will allow for people to communicate and interact effectively.  It will also use ethos (author credibility), pathos (appeal emotion), logos (appeal to logic) to gain trust of the users and therefore commitment.

LDS.NET

1. The website has amazing potentialities which are in their case forums for connecting and talking.  They look well thought out and intriguing. 
2. They use ethos well by displaying all of their followers on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. They use pathos well by allowing for real people to open up and talk about passionate topics.  BUT unfortunately, they do not use logos very well.  I believe they do not use logos well because the layout of their sight is pretty confusing.  This is a big turn off to me, and I am sure to other users as well. I feel if they could get the logical flow of their website down, they would have a lot more users. 

Notes from class: 

• Some potentialities on sight are not actualized.  Like comments on articles.