Sharing Posts and using News feed
Overview
Users can share posts in VREs, attach files to these posts, view, comment, like and unlike them by means of the Share-Update and News-Feed web applications. These applications are mainly based on the facilities offered by the Social-Networking library, see here for more details.
The share updates application mainly allows users to share their updates within a VRE context. The author can also want to notify other members for his post. The application allows also to attach a single file by means of an upload file or more than one file by means of drag and drop. If an url is paste into the textbox area, the application automatically tries to generate a link preview to be attached to the post. Further social networking tools such as hashtags for topics ('#'), to cite other people or groups (using '@' notation). In the following, some use cases are reported.
