Social Network
Social
Network
Technological
advances have increased dramatically through the years, technology has been
very helpful in our daily lives, simplified surprisingly since they have
created many useful tools for our daily use and have made our lives easier.
On this
occasion we are talking about social networks, as it is a very effective media
to communicate with friends and family around the world. The barriers have been
breaking slowly and the social networks have influenced so that much of this
can be possible.
Social
networks are social structures composed by groups of people, which are
connected by one or more types of relationships such as friendship, kinship,
common interests or shared knowledge. There may be many types of links between
nodes. The multidisciplinary research has shown that social networks operate on
many levels, from family relationships to relationships statewide organizations
(in this case we speak of political networks), playing a critical role in
determining the political agenda and the degree to which individuals or
organizations achieve their objectives or are influenced.
Social
network analysis examines the social structure using Graph Theory and
identifying the entities as "nodes" or "vertices" and
relationships as "links" or "edges". The structure of the
resulting graph is often very complex. As stated, in its simplest form, a social
network is a map of all the relevant links between all nodes studied. We speak
here of networks "sociocentric" or "complete". Another
option is to identify the network that involves a person (in different social
contexts in which they interact), in which case we speak of "personal
network".
The social
network can also be used to measure social capital (ie the value that an
individual obtains accessible resources through their social network). These
concepts are shown often in a diagram where the nodes are points and loops,
lines.
Social network
is also often referred to as Internet platforms. The social networking sites
whose purpose is to facilitate communication and other social issues on the
website.
Among the best known social networks are:
Facebook
Twitter
Tagged
MySpace
hi5
Baddo, etc.
Each of these
have different characteristics, but each one is functional from one user to
another, ie, depends on the need of each.
By : Keila sterling
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