Title :
The Social Network
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Facebook as the emerging internet industry representative, which takes improving the communication among people as a mission, now is practicing the new trend of the generalized virtual economy. Facebook´s success and rapid growth shows the tremendous economic prospects for the development of the generalized virtual economy. With the development of the internet, information as the communication link, transfers the generalized virtual economy to everyone. The development of the internet supplies a good field for studying generalized virtual economy. Generalized virtual economy supplies a strong theory for improving the development of the internet industry as well.
Keywords :
social networking (online); socio-economic effects; Facebook; Internet industry; economic prospects; generalized virtual economy; social network; Economics; Facebook; Industries; Internet; Presses; Publishing; generalized virtual economy; human-based economy; six degrees of separation; social network;
Conference_Titel :
Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Electronic Commerce (AIMSEC), 2011 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Deng Leng
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0535-9
DOI :
10.1109/AIMSEC.2011.6010876