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Previous in series on 'web 2.0 reviews' Ali Balunywa The famous phrase “to be, or not to be” comes from William shakespeare’s Hamlet prince of Denmark (written about 1600), act three, scene one. It is one of the most famous quotations in world literature.

by: danah boyd In youth culture When I read the Chicago Tribune's coverage of why teens have eschewed dates for school dances, I wanted to scream. This shift has nothing to do with "the way young people view personal relationships in the age of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter" (and not just because teens don't use Twitter in significant numbers yet).

How can we make use of all the data stored in Social Networking Sites? And how can we study those data? In 2005 Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd developed a system called Vizster. It is an information visualization system that visualizes networks within the Friendster social networking service.

A study of the University of Georgia describes as more likely to be narcissist those Facebook users who have a large number of friends and wallposts, narcissism in this case being defined as an emphasis on self-promotion and quantity of friends.

There is a good chance that most addicts to Mark Zuckerberg’s social gossip platform will easily recognize the modal window depicted down here. It’s what users are asked for when they click the option details accessible from the friends section of facebook’s dashboard.

A useful way to understand social network sites (or SNSs for short) is to look at the work of danah boyd. In the publication “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship” (2007) she and Nicole Ellison define a ’social network site’ as: ” We define social network sites as web-based

Lot’s of research has been done on “new” digital environments, also known as Social Network Sites (SNS), which enable people to display themselves publicly through the use of personal profile space. Danah Boyd, a well respected researcher on this defines these sites as: Web-based services that allow

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 danah boyd write: ‘Networks are the extension of our social world; they also act as its boundary.

  http://www.linkedin.com/      http://www.hyves.nl/   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 on the internet.