Friendship, Facebook style?
A pretty good critique about how people think about and define friendship. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/11/friendship-facebook-aditya-chakrabortty?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038
A pretty good critique about how people think about and define friendship. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/11/friendship-facebook-aditya-chakrabortty?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038
Stefan Wuchty and Brian Uzzi at Northwestern have published a rigorous paper suggesting that besides volume and reciprocal exchange, response time can help identify different types of ties in one’s social networks. The Wall Street Journal coverage is here: E-Mail Separates Friends from Acquaintances. The Science Now coverage is here: E-mail Reveals Your Closest Friends. The original research paper is…read more →
It was nice to see that our paper Predictors and consequences of differentiated practices on social network sites was picked up by other folks. See here for Amar Toor’s article.
An interesting survey done by one of the main online job bank sites. The sample is the job seekers/users of the site. But, it is still an interesting finding. 52% of the 2,732 people surveyed in this study indicated that they are Facebook users. Of these Facebook users, 60.5 % said they use it for networking, but only 18% of…read more →
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