Social Networking from an IE perspective

Social Networking from an IE perspective

This is the last blog of this semester, and it is interesting that the title of this blog is the same as that of our first blog. So I think maybe it is the time for us to rethink what we have learnt from our class, and the time for harvest.

From a perspective of engineering, I think I should like the last three lectures, because there finally appear many mathematic formulas! OK, I am just kidding.

When it comes to what I know about Social Networking that I do not know before, I think I can divide the topic into three parts:

1.       About social tasks and social media

In the second lecture I got to know that a social task is a larger view of collaborative work in a social network. I think I like the word ‘collaboration’, it sounds like that all people work together, share together to reach a common team goal, and it is a word that sounds the most potent and inspiring.

Social media can be Facebook, Twitter or something like that. The topic that I most interested in is social media marketing. Social media marketing is mainly about information sharing, and I think the most attractive point about it is that we may feel that we know the product better and we are closer to the product.

2.       About psychology and cognition

Social psychology is about the understanding of individual behavior in a social context. And I think the individual behavior in a social context is related to the cognition of an individual, because an individual firstly perceive the environment and then the perception contributed to the basis for further processing. All the above are about human cognition.

3.       About security and privacy issues

Everyone involved in social network is concerned about security and privacy issues, however,   challenges to security and privacy is also about the user population’s lack of awareness. It is interesting, right? So we should learn to protect ourselves in social network platform.