35 Different Ways of Looking at Social Networks 47
jg21 writes "Social Computing Magazine has just published a list of thirty-five perspectives on online social networking reflecting how protean and difficult to pin down the phenomenon is. It was compiled by Malene Charlotte Larsen, a PhD student at Aalborg University in Denmark, who has been doing research on Danish youngsters and online social networking. She ends with an open request for further perspectives."
35 perspectives is bit too much! (Score:3, Funny)
Dash it, All I can come up with is but one: Sex.
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Re:35 perspectives is bit too much! (Score:5, Funny)
So theres 2 perspectives: Sex and those who can get laid without them
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I found it to be kinda short sighted in the article that they would seperate the "sex" perspective from the "youth" and "identity" perspectives. Of course teens are going to have all sorts of pictures of themselves tring to be sexy, they are learning what being sexy means. That's why younger teens often have such crazy fashion sense, trying to find what their own sex appeal. Which is one of major newly emerging parts of their identity. I think the only big
The complete and utter shite perspective (Score:3, Funny)
The "surveillance perspective" - how true! (Score:2, Interesting)
How about "The nothing-new-here perspective" - to refer to all those who say Web 2.0 is just déjà vu all over again.
One she already has that seems in
Re:The "surveillance perspective" - how true! (Score:4, Interesting)
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35 MADLIBS (Score:2, Funny)
Re:35 MADLIBS (Score:4, Funny)
I resent your SMELLY accusation, as I have been FARTING my research for over ELEVENTEEN years now. Just because you're bored by POOP doesn't mean this research won't help FLYING MIDGETS in the long run.
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1) Sad, lonely bedrooms boys (and girls, in some cases, I guess) trying to get laid.
2) Sad, lonely bedrooms boys (and girls, in some cases, I guess) trying to get laid.
3) Sad, lonely bedrooms boys (and girls, in some cases, I guess) trying to get laid.
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It could be worse (Score:5, Funny)
The Perspective's Perspective perspective (Score:3, Insightful)
The plea in the end to contribute more perspectives just stresses that.
There are as many perspectives as people involved in (online or offline) social networking.
IMHO the only insight I can contribute is that networking is a human trait that we carry to every medium we use to communicate with.
When you contribute to a network you get more than what you put in.
I think an analysis of peer-to-peer networking, with contributors, leechers, etc. would show the dynamics very clearly and that could be extrapolated to a lot of human networking activities, i.e.: The economy.
Well, this is MY rambling contribution to this topic anyway.
I find the repetition of the word "perspective" in the article deeply annoying.
35 Different Ways of Looking at Social Networks (Score:2)
-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
Riiight (Score:5, Insightful)
Let's blame "The people behind the sites" and not:
A) Kids who sneak away to meet predators
B) Parents who aren't paying attention
C) Online predators for their behavior
D) Parole officers for not keeping tabs on sex offenders
Do any of those alternative sources of blame sound reasonable?
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6. The paedophile and predator perspective
Catholic churches are an El Dorado for paedophiles and predators who want to harm young people. The people behind the churches are not in control of safety and do not put enough effort into keeping predators out of the churches.
That's documented reality, [wikipedia.org] established in hundreds of lawsuits.
Myspace, Facebook, etc. aren't losing multiple multi million dollar lawsuits for deliberately assisting in covering up child molestation by their employees. The Catholic Ch
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Catholic churches are an El Dorado for paedophiles and predators who want to harm young people.
My opinion is that that it's more to the point to say that the Catholic priesthood and monastic orders are a haven for sexually aberrant and dysfunctional individuals. IMHO only someone who has major issues with their own sexuality is going to voluntarily take a vow of lifelong celibacy. There won't be any meaningful reform until the institutions have a population of people with a healthy outlook on sex, and that won't happen until the Church allows priests, monks, and nuns to marry.
Re:Riiight, silly boy and (Score:2)
I agree, "Catholic churches are an El Dorado for pedophiles and predators."
Also, I know from friends back 30 years ago the Methodist, Jewish, Islam, Baptist, Lutheran, Mormon
I have believed for decades, that the reduction in people attending church/temple/mosque... around the w
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For the most part, no, that's a bad argument:
A) Kids who sneak away to meet predators
Any adult with a profit motive who absolves themselves of responsibility and blames it on a horny 13-year old is being an arsehole.
B) Parents who aren't paying attention
Of course parents have responsibilities. But any adult with a profit motive who absolves themselves of responsibility with respect to children because it all rests with the parents is being an arsehole. Parents should not have to enforce a police s
Pedophilia again... Sheesh! (Score:2)
It would be a good idea for wishful-thinking Scandinavian feminist PhD types to finally let go of the idea that pedophilia is a one-way street or that all sex is rape initiated by a male offender.
I should know: ages ago, I was one of those kids who was too shy and too skinny to get laid with people their own age and who willingly sought older girls who had already achieved the age of majority. The point is that most adults I've had sex with had no harmful intentions; there was no "molesting" taking place
worthless trivia (Score:2)
Let's have 35 perspectives on sociologists trying to sound like they understand the internet and how people use it.
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When Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis created USENET as a system of online collaboration and interaction, they surely beat Web 2.0 to the count by more than two decades (1979 versus 2003).
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One answer (Score:2)
the real story is (Score:1)
we create ourselves based on relations to others those relations are manifestations of our own perspectives we see ourselves from the outside looking through the other's eyes social networking literally gives us an outsider's perspective of ourselves, but this is only a exaggeration of t
35 Different Ways ... (Score:2, Funny)