Sunday, July 11, 2010

Social Networking Services in Life~

Background
The technique of Web 2.0 is a trend in WWW technology, and marks the new generation of web-based communities such as social networking sites, wikis and blogs, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users. Web 2.0 boosts the development of social networking services, which build online social networks for people communicating and sharing their interests and activities.

Function of SNS
Social networking services (SNS) are the fast-growing type of social software in both Internet and in company’s Intranets. They are the application systems offer users functionalities for 1) identity management (to find someone, to build a common context or to stay informed about the other) such as in the form of profile and enable to 2) keep in touch can be split in direct communication or exchange with someone and indirect communication is a need for contact management with other users.

SNS are a mix of different functions supporting matchmaking, direct and indirect communication. Fig. 1 is the process of IT supported social networking for reference.

Communicating tools
Base on the communicating tools are from face to face talking directly, then was icq, MSN and qq that via digital equipment; Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube are some notable social networking websites; 微博, xanga, Twitter and blogger of google are famous blogging service that is used to send “updates” to the personal network via web or cell phone.

Conclusion
Referring to the quantitative research took place from December 5, 2007 to January 31, 2008 and the result on Fig. 2 we can find that the item of keeping contact (awareness about the own contacts, exchange with them) was esteemed most important by the users.

Reference :
1) http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1242572.1242685
2) http://www.kooperationssysteme.de/docs/pubs/RichterKoch2008-coop-sns.pdf

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