When it comes to the topic what is the
social network. I think we can discuss the problem by dividing ‘social network’
into ‘social’ and ‘network’. The term network means a set of relationships. For
example, the electrical network is an interconnection of electrical elements, where the interconnection is
the relationship of electrical elements. In my opinion, the difference
between a social network and an electrical network is the interaction of individuals
in a social network. So here we come to the definition of the term ‘social’.
From my aspect, the term social refers to the interaction of actors. The
interaction of actors is by sharing, communication and collaboration through social
media. So all in all, the term ‘social network’ means that actors build a set
of relationships by interacting each others.
Before
lectures
by Prof. Chan, I may mainly consider social network as the communication
among friends. Such as we chat by QQ, or we share what we like by RENREN, which
is just for entertainment. Now I know that social network can be used for entertainment,
but it is much more than entertainment. Let me take co-authoring as an example.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that
everyone can edit, is an essential source of knowledge on the Internet now. In Wikipedia, people also share what they
have known like what we do in RENREN, but Wikipedia
makes the sharing become knowledge in system. In another word, people
collaborate to write an encyclopedia by sharing what they have known. Thanks to
the collaboration, the information in Baidu Zhidao(something that like the Wikipedia ) is always the latest and exhaustive.
What I want to know about social network
is that since social network is mainly about sharing, communication and collaboration,
how to ensure our security and privacy in social network. What’s more, I’d like
to learn something more about psychology in social network.
For your question, I consider that there exists lots of methods which provided by SNS. For example, we can choose which people can view our personal information and we can also choose that which part of our personal information could be viewed by others. If you mean security problems in technical perspective , I consider that may be another interesting topic ,but beyond what we can learn during this course. Or, you just think that current methods that provided by SNS is not enough to protect us?
回复删除The privacy problem always attracts peoples' eyes. I've seen this worry in many of our classmates' blogs.
回复删除However, I think this problem is not that serious, as it also occurs in our daily life offline. The government and some companies have collected your phone number and other personal information, and this might leak to someone else (there are cases that some people buy information from banks before), just like strangers can see your profile on your homepage. Therefore the personal information leaking happens everywhere, not just on the Internet. We can apply the same policies released in the real world to the Internet and using this to restrict the behaviors of those online service providers.
I got a new word from your blog, that is ‘collaboration’. You have mentioned it more than once and it really impressed me that everyone in the social networking system shows strong willing to be together, no matter to chat or to solve problems. And because of this, we will make a better online environment. Thanks for your sharing.
回复删除We may know some people who are shy or even can't express themselves in the real word. The social networking can give them courage and they would become another people online, they can speak out freely and give others a lot of good suggestion.
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