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SocialNetworking

Michelle Breen

For LNSS Project

May 6th 2009


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Week 9of 23 ThingsSocial Networking

Thing 18

Take a look at someSocial Networking sites
http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/12/social-networking-2.htmlhttp://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/12/social-networking-2.html


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First, a definition . . .


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A social networking site is a web-based services

that allows individuals to construct a public orsemi-public profile within a bounded system,articulate a list of other users with whom theyshare a connection, and view and traverse their

list of connections and those made by otherswithin the system.

Boyd, D.M., Ellison, N. B. (2007) Social network sites: Definition, history, and

scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11.

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.htmlhttp://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html


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What are social networking

sites useful for?

Communicating?

Collaborating?

Nothing at all?


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Mission: to connect the worlds professionalsto accelerate their success

Started 2002, 4,500 members first official month Today, over 39m members

A new member joins LinkedIn approximatelyevery second

About half the members are outside the U.S.

Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are members


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Why I got started on social networking


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Challenge # 1:

Finding anything interestingto write on my BEBO, whenreally I was just thereobserving

Problem: my peers werentthere

Challenge # 2:

Wot u up 2 l8r

Wl bdr b4 dinr 2nite,BFN

C U @ pub l8r LOL


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has many features(I dont like them all)

The Wall Messages INBOX (and threads) & Chat Friends Pokes Groups Fan Pages & Adverts Events

Photos & Videos Posted items & notes Shared items Applications (games)


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Teaching using

Have your students in groups

Have them as Facebook friends perhaps in a friend groupthat you can restrict

Some students may be outraged that their lecturer be-friended them but others may

think its good to be able to see a real life side of the person whos teaching them Post and share URLs

Reading lists

Other online material

Dont put your own material on facebook just link to it

Photos & Videos (but watch copyright!)

Organise group work with facebook events.


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Example, teaching using a socialnetworking tool

David Hamill, TCDTCD TAP (Trinity Access Programme).

Because the VLEs are not v. appealing to students,David used the commercial version of NING to deliver

learning material to students. The students reallyengaged with this and referred to it as our own Bebo.

The website he used is http://tap2008.ning.com
http://tap2008.ning.com/http://tap2008.ning.com/


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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10141752-36.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10141752-36.htmlhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10141752-36.html


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Usage in Ireland

200m people worldwide use

610kin Ireland

1.5m Irish people on

Irish Times has 319k daily readers

UL Library averages ~4k visitors a day


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Usage on the web?

& are in the top 10 MOST visited sites

In Ireland, is in the top 10.

17% of people worldwide that go on the internet visit

The average amount of time someone spends on a Facebook visit is 25

minutes hardly fits in with the skimming users profile that we thought we

were dealing with

Source: http://www.alexa.com/topsites
http://www.alexa.com/topsiteshttp://www.alexa.com/topsiteshttp://www.alexa.com/topsiteshttp://www.alexa.com/topsites


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Its free, games, videos, links, news, gossip, pics Old friends, new friends poking

Contains more info about your contacts than just email address

No instant chat required, post and leave

Read an update about someone without having to call or email

Easier than face-to-face

If your friends are on Bebo or Facebook chances are you will be too

Why so popular?


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Why so popular?

RECRUITMENT

Right now, if you sent me a resume in a envelope, there's

little chance that I'll even open it and the first thing I'mgoing to do when I get it is I'm gonna look online to seewhere you are. And if you're not online, then I'm going tothink, well, why aren't you online? Are you even currentto the market? Do you even understand what's going onin the world?

Marketplace Money, Friday October 19th 2007http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/10/19/online_job_networking/
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/10/19/online_job_networking/http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/10/19/online_job_networking/


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Life beyond BEBO & Facebook

Young children and teenagers social network

in different places:

Club Penguin

Webkinz

Hi5


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Social networking sites, not for kids


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Social networking sites forspecific age groups or interests

Age: Multiply (seniors and settled); Boomj (baby boomers); Rezoom

Country of origin: Silicon India

Gender: CafMom; MothersClick; Sister Woman (female friends)

Occupation: ModelsHotel; FanLib (fiction writers); AdGabber; TheFeng.org

(financial services executives); MilitarySpot (military families); Sermo(doctors and physicians),

Business and careers: ConnectBuzz; Doostang; Execunet; Netshare; Ryze; Viadeo; Xing

Interests: TradeKing (investors); Ravelry (knitting); StreetCred (hip hop);

IndiePublic (art and design); PeerTrainer (health and wellbeing)


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Library related SNS(SNS = social networking sites)


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Will SNS be around in 5years?

Yes, the next generation of it will with allservices in a central service will learning

happen in the same place as socialising?

The graduates of the MA IN Social Media from

City University in Birmingham certainly hopethat these internet collaboration tools go onfor a long time.
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/media/socialmediahttp://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/media/socialmedia


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That was . . . . .Thing 18: Social Networking

Thank you for your time

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