Components of Your Social Networking Network
Social networking is made up of many different things. You probably belong to many different kinds of social networks to keep yourself in touch with your world.
GregsBlog calls it the "Hub and Spoke Theory". You have your favorite music site where you download your music, your favorite video site where you get your videos, your profile site, your cell phone and a bunch of other sites in your network. They all server their own purpose for you and they are all part of your social network.
I like YouTube and MySpace for video. I have a Myspace Profile that I use to connect to old friends from school. I also belong to a few other sites for other reasons. I use the Kodak site to store my photos. Of course I have my trusty cell phone that I would be lost without.
What are some of the sites in your own personal network?
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Social networking by its nature has relied on the breadth of ‘connections’ in order to succeed – the larger the numbers of people on a particular site, the more effective it become at forging the unique and valuable social connections that people look for from social networking sites.
We’ve recently be working with some companies developing ‘fenced’ social networking sites which deliver the functionalities of Facebook, MySpace, etc, but offer market specific functionality for a market segment. For example, for Slough Young People’s Centre (www.sypc.co.uk), we’ve developed 80% of the functionality of Facebook, but then added personal podcasts, automated CV generation with ‘virtual assistance’ and shared social calendars. The application has been so successful that we launched the application as a stand alone component earlier this week (http://www.iYoof.co.uk).
The benefits of ‘targetted’ functionality are obvious for users but the lack of ‘open associations’ can be viewed either as a positive or a negative depending on where you are standing. For our youth orients social networking sites, security has such an overriding imporance, that ‘fenced’ membership helps to make site management feasible.