This
course helps me to know social networking systematically and comprehensively. So,
in this blog, I want to talk some understanding, some questions, some findings
and so on.
What
is social networking? As prof. Chan said, a social network is a social structure
made up of individuals or organizations called “nodes”,which are tied by one or
more specific types of interdependency. The interdependency includes
friendship, financial exchange, knowledge and so on. So, social network focus
on the process of building relationship over the web. Yeah, we can take some
examples, you know social facebook, weibo are connected by friendship; some
forum such as tianya, maopu aim to answer questions and know more
knowledge; the shopping website such as taobao, ebay, Amazon are built for
financial exchange. So you will find these social networking has begun to
change our life here and there. So, why it developed so quickly and has so
great influence? Beside the fast development of social computing and
technology, maybe we can talk something from psychology. You know the founder
of facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, one of his majors is psychology.
Figure1 shows
social networking websites comparisons and ranking. If you are careful, you
will find most of the top 10 websites are about friendship. People can find
friends here and share something and so on. Of course you know, everybody belongs
to social. We hope to be concerned, to be known and to be loved and so on. Yeah,
my major is not psychology, I don’t know much about it, but I believe there
must be something from psychology to analyze people’s needs and behavior, which
may be the potential business opportunity. If you know more detail, you can
leave some message. Haha~
Figure1
On
the other hand, can we know more social people behavior psychology from social
networking? Yeah, of course, we can. You know, from research of weibo, we can
find what time is high tide and what time is low tide for people to scan weibo,
and from the time, we also know the behavior more. So, maybe you can give me
more examples about it.
So,
social networking has changed our life, our communication style. Then, does it
have some shortcoming? Now, we can just stay in front of computer, then we can
talk with friends, share some information with others, even buy something from
network. So, it may reduce normal communication in face to face. Do you have
the similar situation where you can talk more with a person in network than in
face to face? I have a friend, he can talk many topic even make some joke with
me in QQ, but ,when we talk with each other in face to face, he cannot talk
much. Maybe he is nervous. So, it is a case.
Ok,
that’s all~
sounds funny and interesting, people are adopeted to socical networking now, just like someone will go crazy without mobile phones even for one day, so i am quite agree with you on this point ^_^
回复删除Do you believe we can analyse people's behavior on the fackbook (or other sns) to precisely acknowledge what he really keen on in an technical way and,you said,psychology way?I consider it impossible to accomplish the task just using the existing method based on texts.
回复删除I think it's possible to predict people's behavior in the near future.Just like the article said,we are the tied nodes in the social network.As long as you are active in the network,you are creating data all the time.Just a click of an anchor,or watching some video,commenting others' words.According to these data,we use the knowledge of data mining,machine learning,pattern recognition,to analyse the users' intention,which has been largely applied by social websites.
删除yeah, it is difficult to get the information from sns website, such as facebook, because of the individual privacy. But, the information still represent some behavior and reflect some psychology, maybe these data will help us to understand people behavior psychology more deeply.
删除The so-called social networking is virtual, it seems to help make our life more sociable, but actually it makes us more and more lonely. We are getting so dependent on it to communicate with friends that we don't know how to deal with friends in the real world, just as you described in the last part of the article!Anyway, when I know some new friends, I will search them in the social networking, because it's really a good way to know somebody quickly!
回复删除yeah, you are right~ so how to use the social networking with the best positive influence on our life is another topic and is desired our concern.
删除At the end of this blog, the real case experienced by the author implies an interesting and debatable issue. The same person may have different manners in virtual or electronic relationship as opposed to real or physical contact. Intuitively, a popular person in the real world will have more connections in the virtual one, that is, the number of friends one deals with in the two different worlds should be positively correlated. So an uncommunicative, silent, less attractive introvert remains isolated in the virtual world. However, it turns out to be a little bit different. I think social network, now synonyms of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and so on, has the power to let more people with social barriers take part in it actively or passively. Some persons with slight mental disease such as body interaction or facial expression explaining barriers may appear normal in other aspects, so that you are not able to tell the difference when “talking” with him or her in social network. This reminds me of the movie Marry and Max in which two main characters suffering from Asperger syndrome, kept their friendship for about 20 years by letters. When taking about friendship, we can define popularity by the number of friends a person have. But what is a friend? Different people hold different opinions, so it is not strange to meet a person with thousands of Facebook friends and another one with just a few. For me, a friend is single soul dwelling in two bodies.
回复删除The example of your friend sounds funny. I agree with your point that social network changes our life. Before I taking this course, what the social network means to me is just RenRen, Facebook and Weibo. I know these websites belongs to social networks but I have no idea what social network really is. It relates to social psychology, social behavior and SNA, etc. It brings us a new way to communicate and interact with people. Since the social network is still in its early stage, I believe it will bring us more interesting and valuable use.
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