Space-Time-Cube envisioned for social networking services

Considering space and time which are the basic reference in people´s ordinary are still not widely used in the current social networking services, the paper envisioned the uses of the Space-Time-Cube in this area. Specifically, the study represented two main components of social networking services (social networks and person profiles) in a spatial-temporal manner. For the social networks, Space-Time Cube provides different views for both group-level or individual-level social networks; for the personal profiles, Space-Time-Cube can organically organize and represent them by using the Annotated-Space-Time-Path. It can be concluded that the spatial-temporal information is an important type of factor of the social networking services and the Space-Time-Cube can make social networking information more convenient and understandable for each participant.