As Facebook is
increasingly being referred to as the “Third nation” and Obama officially met with Zuckerberg, I would like to think about the impact of social media on our
behavior, and a way of analyzing the changes it has instaured in our lives from
a social network analysis perspective.
How does the use of
social network impact real-life relationships? How many “friends” have we never
met IRL? How many happy-married couples met through a friend’s friend… on
Facebook?
Another question sprung to my mind as a wind of panic blew on Facebook (last week, “private
messages” were posted on our “walls” due to, supposedly, a bug in the system): Are
technology-averse people condemned to become isolates, outliers in a
virtually-connected world, or will they on the contrary become the crucial
nodes in linking people in real life? It would be interesting to find someone that has never been
on Facebook and analyze their ego network, and the way they are related to their friends... if such a person exists.
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