DocumentCode
1372764
Title
It´s All About the (Social) Network
Author
Douglis, Fred
Author_Institution
EMC
Volume
14
Issue
1
fYear
2010
Firstpage
4
Lastpage
6
Abstract
The paper discusses the Internet as a social network. Networking is naturally a central focus of the Internet computing space. Initially, this term referred to connecting computers together, now it refers just as often to how people are interconnected - that is, "social networks." The paper discuss information overload in the context of three social networks: Facebook, Linkedln, and Google Wave; and offers its prediction that social networks might go.
Keywords
Internet; social networking (online); Facebook network; Google Wave network; Internet; Linkedln network; information overload; social network; Computer networks; Facebook; IP networks; Joining processes; Social network services; Facebook; Google Wave; LinkedIn; Metcalfe´s Law; Twitter; social networking;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Internet Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1089-7801
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MIC.2010.13
Filename
5370815
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