Trends+in+Social+Networks


 * [|Memberships, Relationships and Change]
 * Who wrote this article?
 * What is the trend in terms of membership?
 * Why do members rarely delete their profiles?


 * [|You have been Poked]
 * Which population was Facebook originally targeting?
 * Do you agree or disagree that a major use of Facebook is for voyeurism and/or exhibitionism?
 * What does Table 4 tell us about motivation of use?
 * Are the motivation factors of Facebook also shared by MySpace or Friendster?


 * [|Use of Facebook and LinkedIn]
 * What boundaries is the title referring to?
 * The paper mentions four types of tensions that may affect SN use in workspace: legitimacy, mixing personal and professional, boundary crossing, and confidential information disclosure. Are these tensions unique to workspace?
 * What is the generation difference between 25-35 and 36-45 groups in terms of LinedIn usage?


 * [|What makes conversation interesting?]
 * What are examples of conversations facilitated by social networks?
 * Why do we need to care whether conversations are interesting?
 * Have you ever participated in an online conversation? What caused you to do so?
 * Is your reason captured by any of the three conjectures mentioned in the paper (listed below)?
 * find the conversation theme interesting (what the previous users are talking about)
 * see comments by people that are well known in the community, or people that they know directly comment (these people are interesting to the user)
 * observe an engaging dialogue between two or more people (an absorbing back and forth between two people)


 * [|From Wikipedia to the Classroom]
 * How does an educational wiki different from THE Wikipedia?
 * When was the first time you took a course that uses a Wiki?
 * What is the effect of online interactions among students?
 * What is the effect of publishing writings publicly on students?


 * [|Social Networking and Dating]
 * What social network sites were studied?
 * How do people find "the perfect one?"
 * How do people determine the credibility of others' profiles?
 * How do people validate commitment levels?


 * [|Social Coordination]
 * What sorts of new social interactions do SNs like Facebook or Twitter coordinate?
 * How are Facebook and Twitter compared in terms of the level of structure in the types of social interactions they mediate?