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Social Network Site vs. Social Networking Site?

Social Network Site vs. Social Networking Site?

Boyd and Ellison give a useful definition for social network sites, that entails the minimum core functions a web-based application must have to be considered a SNS. But at the same time this definition falls short in defining what...
An Easy Way to Meet Hot Chicks…Using ‘Tagged’

An Easy Way to Meet Hot Chicks…Using ‘Tagged’

An easy to use web-based application incorporated in the social network site Tagged is described in this article. The "Meet Me" service allows users to find and meet others in a very easy way, and is a nice example...

Social Networking Sites: What Added Value Lies in the Connections?

In having different social networking sites, connections are also different. This might seem obvious, but how do these connections differ and what does that mean? In their paper ‘Public Displays of Connection’, MIT Media Lab professor Judith Donath and academic...
SNS: Between Diversity & Online Cultural Schizophrenia

SNS: Between Diversity & Online Cultural Schizophrenia

See also the complete ‘SNS: Between Diversity & On-line Cultural Schizophrenia’ Reflexion Here ‘The accident of where one is born is just that, an accident; any human being might have been born in any nation.’1 With these words Martha...
‘Hyves’ and ‘LinkedIn’. My Schizo-life

‘Hyves’ and ‘LinkedIn’. My Schizo-life

When people look at my profile on Hyves and LinkedIn they will find only one thing in common: my picture. There is a clear cut line between these two worlds, they are actually existing on two different physical locations...
Reassembling Social Networks

Reassembling Social Networks

Currently the massive public adoption of social software has changed our habitat and has created shifts in our behaviour. While we know how to behave in unmediated publics (for example we know what is expected from us when we...

Is Couchsurfing.com an Actual SNS?

In her research paper "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship", Danah Boyd makes explicit what the features of a social network are and what their purpose is. I decided to check if these features are present in the...

Hyves: Social Network Site?

Social networksite Hyves is declared ‘website of the year’ by internet users in The Netherlands. About fifty percent of the Dutch own a profile on this fast growing social network site. But what is Hyves and how to study...