= Human Student Dependency on various Social/Networking Systems =
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* The young generation are more at ease and faster in adopting new technologies. Correlation between the group size and the age might reveal the generational gap quantitatively. Also the microscopic analysis of intra- and inter-group dynamics would provide baseline facts about online socializing behaviors.
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* Having more and more valuable public sources for social network information, both on the internet and on the intranet, presents an opportunity to collect social network information in a way that is less sensitive privacy-wise.
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'''Social Matching: A Framework and Research Agenda'''
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* Social networking brings people closer in both physical and online spaces. They have the potential to increase social interaction and foster collaboration.
* People are social creatures—fundamentally so. We look for other people for a multitude of purposes: dating and eventually marriage, pursuing shared interests, addressing community issues, solving technical problems, or maybe just having a good conversation.
* What type of information does a system represent about its users, and how does it acquire this information?
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* For example, text based CMC (such as newsgroups and email) does not provide the social and contextual cues that face-to-face communication has. This can be an advantage when communicating through newsgroups as the absence of information about social status, age and appearance might help to form a more “equal” basis for conversation. * The emergence of computer mediated communication and online communities has lead to the formation of complex online social networks. * The Internet can be described as one of the largest networks, for example, millions of users participate in UseNet newsgroups and post millions of messages.
The emergence of computer mediated communication and online communities has lead to the formation of complex online social networks.
The Internet can be described as one of the largest networks, for example, millions of users participate in UseNet newsgroups and post millions of messages.
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<u>'''Summary'''</u>
Humans now a days rely too much on online networking sites for basic communicationSocial networks are free and open to public and allow users to share photos, videos and other information with friends, family and other contacts. These networks bring people closer. Online networking has become networks are a major great tool or source in order for students to interact and form study groups for group study projects etc. Students live nomadic lives as they move around in classes or communicate between users group meetings or off-campus and therefore, use online tools to stay connected. Its been observed that students stay active online longer due to peer pressure. Students have a wide social sphere which consists of different age groupsfriends, acquaintances as well as school-related contacts with whom they interact daily. It is most popular with Before online social networks came into existance students with nomadic considered email beneficial for social relations in college life. Due It also helps them to interact with friends and family far-away to keep in touch regardless of physical location. Social networking has been recently increased with the use of smart -phones and other mobile technologies like blackberry laptops. Students with smart-phones etc. excess social networks more often then students with laptops or iPhone etc, students who use personal computers at home or phones which are web enabled, these online in libraries. Social networks have become even been more popularand more integrated into student's communication patterns as they use to maintain their social life, schedule meetings in professional clubs or volunteer work or arrange study related meetings/groups or class-related information exchange. Students feel more comfortable in interacting on social networks than talking to them on phone. It This helps to forge bonds with people who they hardly know or see but still need to meet in order to discuss about project or jobsprojects. Students also use online tools to overcome their shyness over contacting peripheral friends directly. Sometimes they Due to the ease of use online netwroking tools are getting used networking tool to interact with more and more by not only by students but by working class people who they don't want to have close relationships with and therefore, would rather message them than call them. People reply on friends status or messages also by older generation in order to be reminded about an event/party or to be invited out for lunch/dinner/meetingstay connected.
