[Air-L] Social network site nomenclature

[Christophe Prieur]

> Anyone agree/disagree?

Well, why not arguing during 7 x 24 hours about the fact that on some  
SNS, there is this features that, if used uncarefully, makes people  
send personal messages to the whole world instead of to their intended  
recipient, which could result either in (a) some bastard being  
offended to be called such by some other, (b) a lawsuit against the  
SNS manager, (c) a hurricane blowing the shores of West Africa?

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   Christophe Prieur,                                        prieur at liafa.jussieu.fr
   Liafa, Université Paris-Diderot
   [user experience research, social networks, (large) graph algorithms]
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Le 13 mai 09 à 10:00, Linda.Olsen at infomedia.uib.no a écrit :

> Hi Kevin.
>
> I think the reason why some researchers still use "online social  
> networks" is that not all social networks on the Internet are bound  
> to a SNS.
>
> The way I see it, a SNS refers to a service that supports online  
> social networks (such as Facebook or LinkedIn). It would, however,  
> be quite tiresome and redundant to refer to them as "online social  
> network services", when SNSs no doubt all exist online. Social  
> networks, however, do not.
>
> Now, I don't know if some researchers also use ONS when they write  
> about Facebook or LinkedIn, but I would expect the term to appear  
> when dealing with social networks on the Internet in general, and  
> not when dealing explicitly with SNSs.
>
> Anyone agree/disagree?
>
> Linda
>
> Siterer Kevin Guidry <krguidry at gmail.com>:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Much of the available research refers to services such as Facebook  
>> and
>> MySpace as "social network(ing) sites/services (SNS)."  Let's ignore
>> for the moment the differences between those four permutations as I'm
>> more interested in learning about why some researchers use "online
>> social networks (ONS)."  SNS seems to be much more common,
>> particularly in the wake of the late 2007 JCMC special theme issue
>> focusing on SNSs.
>>
>> Given that both terms are still in use, is there some sort of subtle
>> cultural or discipline-based divide of which I am unaware?  Or is  
>> this
>> just an oddity that isn't important or indicative of anything more
>> than personal preference?
>>
>>
>> Kevin
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