More about Social Network

Dear mates,

I've got the book on hand, and I found some more defination and related articles about out topic "social network". Here I quoted part of them for your reference.

Page 11 - "Social Network is a site that facilitates peer-tp-peer communication within a group or between individuals through providing facilities to develop user-generated content (UGC) and to exchange messages and comments between different users."

Page 23 - "These sites or parts of sites focus on enabling cimmunity interactions between different consumers (C2C model). Typical.......Well-known examples include Bebo, Facebook, MySpace and Linked-In. Other ........B2B social networks to keep business professionals in contact include Linked-in and Plaxo although some are turning to Facebook for this function."

What do you think if we use Facebook to be one of the example for the study? Let's have more discussion on this first.

On page 86, it shows that research has be done by Microsoft about function of social network. The results is shown as follow for your reference also:

"59% - to keep in touch with friends and family
57% - I like looking at other people's spaces
47% - I want to meet people with similar interests
46% - to express my opinions and views on topics
20% - it is a good way to date
17% - using it for a specific reasion, eg wedding, job networking"

There is a table showing the Variations in number of connections in a sample. I'll upload the table once scanned.