What’s a Social Network?
Earlier, we defined an online community as a group of people who regularly interact with each other on a website. By this definition, social networking websites are online communities in their purest form. In other types of communities, member interaction is focused around a specific theme such as cars or travel reviews, but in a social network, member interactions themselves are the main focus and activity. Members use these websites to socialize. They create profile pages to represent themselves, and they visit the profiles of other members to see who shares their interests and who lives in their city, to find friends, and to learn about their friends’ friends. Each member adds contacts to a personal network or friends ...
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