In the first three lectures, I started to learn the real social network. Before attending the lectures, my social network is updating my status and check my friends status on Facebook. This is all what I know about social network. This course introduced some ideas like social media and social networking. You will find that the internet is full of social media and social networking. More and more web site made use of social media and social networking with different cognitive and social theory. I started to think about why and how social network become more popular in the internet, even in our life. Next time when I am suffering the internet, I will think more about how social network integrate with the different web site.
In the lecture notes, it mentions Relationship mapping and mining. Relationship mapping and mining examines the interactions between users as they occur and map the relationships. It also examines social interactions in different channels such as email, instant messaging, enterprise databases, etc. that embody shared or social activities among a known set of users who have given their permission. I think this topic is very important in social network. It helps people to extend their social network. The corporation can use some social network tools to visualize their current network of contacts and see how they can extend that network to tap into valuable resources and trusted experts across an entire organization. Normal users can also extend their network by mapping their relationship with different people. One day, different network will be linked together. I think relationship mapping is very important for the development of social network. Once a social network is created, the social network will grow by itself. Relationship mapping is very easy to connect different people together and extend the social network.
Moreover, it is easy to archive your messages on the web and use social share bar to enable any visitors to share your message with their social networks. As people are more likely to trust a recommendation from a friend, the social share bar allows you, and any visitors to your online message, to spread the word. With over 500 million Facebook users and over 100 million Twitter users, this is a great way to extend the reach of your message.
ReplyDeleteI agree that all the concept we are going to learn from the lectures are important for us to analyst on the social networking platform. These concepts might not useful to users, but it is important to the network developers and investors. It helps to analyst if the site is popular and profit making possibilities.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that the social networking is joining together and relationship mapping is growing up. After a several years with the latest technology, I think the information of different social websites can be linked and form a big semantic web.
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