A Simple Overview and some feelings about Social Networking!
From the first two weeks of lecture
learning, I have a clear cognition about what is the concept and
differences among social media, social networking, and social computing.
Social media emphasizes on people's
participation and interactions, people use social media as a shift to discover,
read and share news and information. It’s a fusion of sociology and
technology. Social networking emphasizes building
social relationship over the web. It is included in Social media. Social computing focusing
on computing technologies enables social networking. It makes Social
Informatics to Social Intelligence. Social networking is facilitated by
social computing technologies. In the past, I have mixed the concepts of
social media and social network; have not heard of social networking, now
I have all understood these differences. I have also known a social technology
"Mckinsey" and how it effects on simulate people's behaviors in
social networks. I got in touch with some examples
and applications of social tasks, such as Location-centered
social interactions, Open source, Crowd sourcing, Social
brainstorming. Social task is a large view of collaborative work in a
social network.
To be honest, I am not a net-addictor. But
I have got a real feeling of how social networking changes our daily life and
makes social relationship wider. In the primary school, every day I made telephones
with my friends. When I entered in middle school, we began to use the mobile
phone, use SMSs to contact our friends, and at the same time we used QQ, and learned
to use blog to write some personal feelings. Xiaonei.com was popular when we
were in the university. We can communicate with friends in real-time, and
easily find friends current status, new logs, and new pictures. We can easily
find old friend through the social network, which maybe not seen for several
years. Afterwards, Weibo came to our life, and
the applications can be used in our mobile, so that we can see the latest news
from our friends at anytime and anywhere. Through Facebook, we can easily
communicate with foreign friends. Social networking really changes our life a
lot.
This log is just a simple understanding and
some feelings of social networking. I would like to do some further research maybe
in security problem or privacy in the social network. If someone is interested in
this field, welcome for further discussion!
I'm most impressed by the sentence "It is a fusion of technology and psychology". It is the most important feature that makes social media so special, so unique and so successful. Because it analyzes objects that we like and behaviors that we prefer, social media ultimately becomes part of us.
回复删除Yes, social media is far beyond a technology. It knows what we think and what want. Social media reflects people's mental need and facilitate people's communication approach. That's why it can ultimately become part of us.
删除As you said, the social networking is changing our life no matter you are addicted in networking or not.
回复删除And I think the networking will change our life more and more. Sometimes, the social networking exist around us without our realizing.As your example of QQ, when we go aboard, the expense of calls is too large. But the expense of QQ is none. So it helps us keep touch with others.
The example of QQ you mentioned reminds me of using Myspace in my middle school time. Though Myspace has some disadvantages compared to blog and micro blog now, it does allowed us to share our feelings and communicate with our friends that time. As you said, social networking changes our lives and I believe it will go on improve our lives.
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