Does The Internet Help Or Hurt Social Relationships... Again

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Explicitly constructed social networks
not only lack the differentiation that
makes relationships real, they are
falsehoods built to reinforce spectral
relationships and to avoid ending shaky
ones

Explicitly constructed social networks
not only lack the differentiation that
makes relationships real, they are
falsehoods built to reinforce spectral
relationships and to avoid ending shaky
ones 01/05/2004 04:58 AM
Yay to David Weinberger .. Corante Many2Many

corante.com/many/archives/2004/01/04/does_social_software_ matter.php
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Internet Relationships 'As Damaging as
Real-Life Affairs'

Internet Relationships 'As Damaging as
Real-Life Affairs' 04/17/2004 12:46 PM
PA News via The Scotsman Online Apr 17 2004 5:15PM GMT

Internet poses threat to doctor-patient
relationships!:-

Internet poses threat to doctor-patient
relationships!:- 04/03/2005 10:42 AM
Webindia123 Apr 3 2005 12:53PM GMT

Online Business Networks - Building
Quality Business Relationships on the
Internet

Online Business Networks - Building
Quality Business Relationships on the
Internet 12/28/2004 06:58 AM

Online Business Networks

Online Business Networks - Building Quality Business Relationships on the Internet
http://www.onlinebusines snetworks.com/

Reach More of the Right People Faster with Less Effort. Business is under pressure now more than ever to do more with less — bigger, better, cheaper, faster. But at what cost? At the cost of human relationships? It doesn't have to be. The internet offers powerful tools to help you find the right people, connect with them, build trust and rapport, and collaborate with them quickly and cost-effectively. This is a good guide with some fine resources. This has been added to my white paper Online Social Networking.

Have Your Say Do free internet downloads
hurt the music industry?

Have Your Say Do free internet downloads
hurt the music industry? 02/17/2004 01:10 PM
BBC Feb 17 2004 5:04PM GMT

DJ Nasdaq Ends At 1859: Down 32 (1.7%):
Internet, Chips Hurt

DJ Nasdaq Ends At 1859: Down 32 (1.7%):
Internet, Chips Hurt 08/03/2004 06:09 PM
FXStreet.com Aug 3 2004 9:32PM GMT

Internet Use at Our House Goes Social

Internet Use at Our House Goes Social 12/30/2004 02:52 PM

There have been some interesting things happening with the internet at our house during the past few months. The first started back in August when all of Brent’s neighborhood friends discovered Runescape, an online RPG (“role playing game”). Basically, you walk around and talk to people, collect things, trade things, work a little, and sometimes fight. Amazingly, basic play is free, although you can subscribe to an enhanced membership for $5 per month. Since the game is free, the software blocks out swear words (although the kids know how to get around that to a certain extent), and the violence is minimal (cartoonish when someone is killed), we parents have been letting them play it.

At the time Brent started playing, I didn’t think it was going to last. He was much more of a console player, focusing on his PlayStation 2. He didn’t like the social aspect of games much, either - he just wanted to play, play, play. But he surprised me. Five months later, Runescape has completely overtaken console gaming, only fading for a few moments this past week when Santa bought him Jak III for the PS2. Once he beats that game, though, we fully expect him to go back to being obsessed with Runescape. And obsessed is the accurate term here. It’s all he can talk about. He’s always reporting what level he is on, what armor he’s trying to acquire, who he met that day, and which of his friends swore while he was talking to them. When you meet somebody in the game, you can type messages to talk to them, a feature that has definitely improved Brent’s typing. He’s also reading faster because the messages scroll up the screen.

It’s been fascinating to watch him embrace the social aspects of the game, and it’s given us excellent avenues for discussion about online identity, particularly fraud. The first time he went out in “the wild” and someone killed him, he was devastated. He was crying harder than at any of the times he was hit with a pitch in a baseball game. But you get to start over again right away, and he proceeded to con a stranger into giving him a sword by claiming he was a little girl who needed help. Now Brent is at a much higher level in the game, and he likes to trade for swords and armor so he can fight other players. Runescape is usually the first thing he thinks about doing when he wakes up and the last thing he talks about before falling asleep, even though we do limit his play. In the morning and evening, he and his neighborhood friends are often playing the game, talking to each other where before they never ever used the telephone to talk. This one game has definitely gotten to him more than any console game.

But as fascinating as all of this is, it’s been just as interesting to watch how the girls’ reaction to the game. After the boys became obsessed with it, the girls had to try it. They’ve all got their own files (accounts), but they do completely different things in the game. They’re also not as obsessed, asking to play far less frequently. When Kailee plays, it’s usually to walk around and meet people or to accomplish a specific goal. Today, she met King Arthur and Lancelot, and she’s trying to save Merlin. She’s not interested in armor or fighting, but rather she likes solving puzzles, exploring, and talking with others. Whereas the boys talk in the game in order to accomplish something, boast, or trade insults, Kailee will talk to someone just to meet them (which was a whole other parental discussion we had with both kids). While it’s a generalization within a game that has thousands and thousands of players, the girls definitely aren’t in it to fight.

So the shift in gaming has been very interesting to watch, but this past week has also seen the kids dive into instant messaging. I was sitting at work a couple of days ago, while Sheree was home with the kids. She was AIMing me some questions and as so often happens these days, Kailee saw her and wanted to do it, too. Kailee immediately loved messaging, and we traded messages back and forth for the next half hour. When I got home, we had to set up her own screen name, which Brent saw. He then wanted a screen name, and the rest is history. At no time did they ask why someone would want to use IM, and they’re both asking their friends if they have screen names so they can add them as buddies. Kailee and I have even been messaging across the room (me on my laptop) because she’s so enamored with it. They’ve started teaching her how to type at school, so again this is excellent practice for her.

In fact, the only problem so far is that when they’ve wanted to go on AIM, it’s been at times when no one else is online so they’ve been disappointed. They’re constantly asking, “Can I go on that thingy to see if anyone is online?” Just wait until they realize they can IM from our cell phones….

So, I’ve officially noted that the kids shifted to online gaming and instant messaging at the ages of nine and ten. How were you communicating with your friends when you were nine and ten?

Internet cuts into your social life

Internet cuts into your social life 01/01/2005 02:26 PM
Asian Age Jan 1 2005 4:48PM GMT

High-speed Internet is the key to your
social life!

High-speed Internet is the key to your
social life! 09/19/2004 08:14 AM
Webindia123 Sep 19 2004 11:39AM GMT

Internet telephones challenge social
contract

Internet telephones challenge social
contract 01/05/2004 06:15 AM
IHT Jan 5 2004 5:31AM ET

From Contact to Contract—Social
Networking on the Internet

From Contact to Contract—Social
Networking on the Internet 03/27/2005 08:10 AM
From Contact to Contract—Social Networking on the Internet by Lisa Daniel
htt p://www.shrm.org/ema/EMT/articles/2005/winter05cover.asp

Social networking sites offer some possibilities for finding candidates, but there are downsides as well. This article details experiences in using social networks to find employees and details the positive and negative attributes associated with online social networking for finding candidates for various job openings within your organization. Of course this is just one use of the many utilizations of online social networking for the business community including sales, marketing and customer support. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Internet & ICTs for Social Justice and
Development News

Internet & ICTs for Social Justice and
Development News 08/07/2004 12:11 PM
Asian Age Aug 7 2004 2:40PM GMT

Internet telephones challenge a basic
social contract

Internet telephones challenge a basic
social contract 01/04/2004 06:58 PM
IHT Jan 4 2004 5:25PM ET

Collections and Internet Resources in
the Humanities and Social Sciences

Collections and Internet Resources in
the Humanities and Social Sciences 12/27/2004 06:52 AM
Collections and Internet Resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences
http://www.lib rary.ucla.edu/libraries/url/colls/

Use these categories to find local and remote collections and resources in specific scholarly areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, including interdisciplinary Area Studies and Ethnic Studies. The resources are from the UCLA Young Research Library Collection. Online resources in all of these and additional subject areas are also accessible via UCLA Library Online Materials. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Social Tech: What an Internet enabled
Insurgency is good for

Social Tech: What an Internet enabled
Insurgency is good for 01/22/2004 06:48 AM
Internet insurgencies are great for 2 things:  the persuasion and coercion of those in power or those that want power.  These insurgencies will be really powerful when they move beyond a blind attachment to a single candidate and start to exercise their power as outsiders.

A little freethinking:  It is easy to imagine the day when social tech enabled interest groups vie with states for control of the party primary system.For example: imagine a well funded single issue group that represents a significant portion of the active voters setting up a national caucus or convention via Meet-up.  Candidates from the two established parties would be invited to run in their primary process.  Forget 2 parties.  What about a dozen?

Social Influence In Distributed Power
Networks Of The Early 21st Century
Internet

Social Influence In Distributed Power
Networks Of The Early 21st Century
Internet 09/14/2004 07:34 AM
Plastic.com - Tue Sep 14, 09:51 am GMT

V2N52 December 27, 2004 Current
Awareness Happenings on the Internet:
Social Informatics

V2N52 December 27, 2004 Current
Awareness Happenings on the Internet:
Social Informatics 12/29/2004 07:35 AM

Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog

This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. December 29, 2004 V2N52 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Social Informatics. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing online social networking resources and sites available on the world wide web. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at:

Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog
http://www.SocialInformatics. net/

V2N18 May 3, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Online
Social Networks

V2N18 May 3, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Online
Social Networks 05/03/2004 06:56 AM
This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (May 3, 2004 V2N18) is dedicated to the latest happenings in Online Social Networks. Click on the audblog link at the bottom of this posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman discussing these new and exciting networks. The below listed sites are some of the latest and greatest online social networks:

Friendster (beta)
http://www.friendster.com/
Friendster is an online community that connects people through networks of friends for dating or making new friends.

Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy (ISNAE)
http://www.isnae.org/index.html
The purpose of ISNAE is to study social networks and use the resulting knowledge to promote economic growth and social well-being.

LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/
Find the people you need through the people you trust - Your trusted friends and colleagues can help put you in touch with many more people than you expect; and those people can refer you to thousands of contacts.

Orkut
http://www.orkut.com/
Orkut is an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends. They are committed to providing an online meeting place where people can socialize, make new acquaintances and find others who share their interests.

PeopleAggregator
http://www.PeopleAggregator.co m/
An Open Source Social Network

Spoke - Extending Business Relationships
http://www.spoke.com/
Delivering insight, influence and access through relationships for greater business advantage.

Tribe
http://www.Tribe.net
This site is devoted to tapping the power of social networks. Their goal is to provide tools that help make your network most useful.

Visible Path
http://www.visiblepath.com/
Visible Path delivers unprecedented reach into companies and access to decision-makers by allowing sales teams to discreetly leverage the relationship capital of the enterprise throughout the sales cycle.

Zaibatsu
http://community.alwayso n-network.com/
Listing for this social networked received from a Slashdot posting ....

Zero Degreesâ„¢ - The People Network Company
http://www.zerodegrees.com/
ZeroDegrees (ZDI) automates Milgram's process. ZDI replicates the social process we use when we ask colleagues with an introduction. If no one knows the person directly, they ask others on our behalf. If all parties along the way, agree-an introduction is made and discreet contact information shared.

The Slashdot article that discusses PeopleAgreggator an Open Source Social Network is available by clicking here. Social Networks are gaining great popularity and we will be hearing and seeing many new and niched networks in the near future. Please send me listings of social networks that I have not listed and I will continue to keep this posting up to date.

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V2N51 December 20, 2004 Current
Awareness Happenings on the Internet:
Online Social Networking

V2N51 December 20, 2004 Current
Awareness Happenings on the Internet:
Online Social Networking 12/22/2004 01:18 AM

Online Social Networking Internet MiniGuide

This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. December 20, 2004 V2N51 discusses his white paper Online Social Networking - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation . Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this very exciting white paper featuring many excellent resources and sites for online social and business networking ... the next wave of the Internet! View this white paper at:

Online Social Networking - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/09/online-social-networki ng-internet.html

Teenagers turn Internet bl0gs into a new
social scene where they can hang out,
flirt and share their thoughts

Teenagers turn Internet bl0gs into a new
social scene where they can hang out,
flirt and share their thoughts 07/05/2004 06:19 AM
SiliconValley.com Jul 5 2004 10:37AM GMT

Social Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis)

Social Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis) 06/25/2004 10:06 AM
Ziff Davis - Participants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs and wikis.

Teenagers turn Internet bl0gs into a new
social scene where they can hang out,
flirt and share their thoughts
(SiliconValley.com)

Teenagers turn Internet bl0gs into a new
social scene where they can hang out,
flirt and share their thoughts
(SiliconValley.com) 07/05/2004 06:16 AM
SiliconValley.com - Seventeen-year-old Patrick Ly was so smitten with a certain classmate that he would visit an Internet blogging site to read his crush's musings. Then Patrick began to keep an online journal himself.

Links are Relationships

Links are Relationships 03/14/2005 06:25 PM
Two very disturbing developments in regulating the blogosphere -- one puts a price on links, the other demands bloggers reveal sources.  Jeff Jarvis : There's a considerable dustup today over an interview with Federal Election Commission Bradley Smith saying...

eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features

eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features 08/13/2004 12:47 PM
eTwine.com integrates new interactive blogging tool with its existing social networking, online dating, and event planning features. Members can share their blogs entries with friends and other members, as well as rate other blogs, add comments to any entry, and sort entries by most popular and highest rated in this unique feature. [PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]

Outsourcing Relationships Analysed

Outsourcing Relationships Analysed 07/29/2004 02:57 AM
[PRWEB Jul 29, 2004]

Digital relationships under the
microscope

Digital relationships under the
microscope 02/18/2004 05:57 AM
At the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference last week, I came about a fascinating discussion called "Revenge of the User" given by Danah Boyd, a Ph.D., candidate at the University of California at Berkeley. While primarily about the ways people use so-called "social software" Web sites (Friendster, Orkut, LinkedIn, etc.), it also reflected the work she'd done for her Master's thesis: "Faceted Identity: Managing representation in a digital world."

CoffeeGeek - Above and Beyond - Grower
Relationships

CoffeeGeek - Above and Beyond - Grower
Relationships 02/10/2004 02:54 AM
http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/ethicalbean/01-28-2004 There's a lot of talk in the coffee world about being responsible. There's an environmental responsibility to protect forests and birds. There's an ethical responsibility to sell quality coffees. But the biggest responsibility seems to be that of a social responsibility, one that ensures that coffee farmers and their families receive respect, recognition and fair wages for their work. Of course, there are many organizations...

Datamining the relationships in your own
email

Datamining the relationships in your own
email 03/14/2003 01:08 PM
Steven Johnson reports on new software that analyzes your email and figures out your social network.

No doubt you've experienced these two types of networks in your own life, many times over. The karass is that group of friends from college who have helped one another's careers in a hundred subtle ways over the years; the granfalloon is the marketing department at your firm, where everyone has a meticulously defined place on the org chart but nothing ever gets done. When you find yourself in a karass, it's an intuitive, unplanned experience. Getting into a granfalloon, on the other hand, usually involves showing two forms of ID.

For most of the past 50 years, computers have been on the side of the granfalloons, good at maintaining bureaucratic structures and blind to more nuanced social interactions. But a new kind of software called social-network mapping promises to change all that. Instead of polishing up the org chart, the new social maps are designed to locate karasses wherever they emerge. Mapping social networks turns out to be one of those computational problems— like factoring pi out to a hundred decimal points or rendering complex light patterns on a 3-D shape— that computers can do effortlessly if you give them the right data.

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A Better View Into Relationships
(TechWeb)

A Better View Into Relationships
(TechWeb) 09/05/2004 04:31 AM
TechWeb - Anacubis Desktop 3.0 shows the BI potential of information visualization software.

Online relationships don't amount to
much

Online relationships don't amount to
much 07/26/2004 05:46 AM
Hamiltonspectator.com - Mon Jul 26, 09:04 am GMT

Social Issues Surround Social Software

Social Issues Surround Social Software 06/25/2004 09:01 AM
Participants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs and wikis.

How do I maintain meaningful
relationships with over 300 people?

How do I maintain meaningful
relationships with over 300 people? 02/07/2005 01:27 AM
Christopher Allen's latest joint, .. social network saturation

lifewithalacrity.com/2005/02/dunbar_triage_t.html
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A Framework for Persisting Data
Relationships

A Framework for Persisting Data
Relationships 01/31/2003 08:03 PM
This tutorial will show you how to create relationships in your databases. PHP classes are provided that will perform the job.

Forward and reverse link relationships

Forward and reverse link relationships 02/01/2005 10:08 PM
A primer on forward and reverse links in HTML -- why rel="nofollow" is so ugly, and why reverse link relationships are so wonderful.

Relationships Over Transactions, A
Learning from the Bubble

Relationships Over Transactions, A
Learning from the Bubble 03/14/2005 06:25 PM
This post is part of Om Malik's bubble-a-thon. Five years ago, I was the President and co-founder of a B2B Exchange with a $1B market cap. Seems right on the 5th anniversary of the bubble to revisit the rational...

Relationships key to AU m-commerce
service success

Relationships key to AU m-commerce
service success 12/12/2003 02:16 AM
ZDNet Australia Dec 12 2003 1:26AM ET

Emerging Internet Technologies - the
Semantic Web - has massive business,
technology, and social applications.A
Workshop in NUI Galway on 1-2 September
will address some of these issues.

Emerging Internet Technologies - the
Semantic Web - has massive business,
technology, and social applications.A
Workshop in NUI Galway on 1-2 September
will address some of these issues. 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
There is a growing user and business interest in being able to transport relevant information between sites. This obviously raises big security issues. The friend of a friend (FOAF)project is a practical experiment designed to identift and solve some of the problems arising from using semantic web technology. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Altiris Advances Customer and Partner
Relationships

Altiris Advances Customer and Partner
Relationships 01/17/2004 10:57 PM

US Patent 6735568: Secrets For
Successful Relationships

US Patent 6735568: Secrets For
Successful Relationships 05/28/2004 01:46 AM
There's no end to the number of patents granted just for the sake of having a patent -- because patents lend the mystique of legitimacy and can be used as marketing gimmicks. But the scientific study of relationships is a legitimate field, so it shouldn't be too surprising that EHarmony.com has receive d a patent on relationships, called a "method and system for identifying people who are likely to have a successful relationship." Their rival, Match.com, obviously doesn't want to capitulate and calls their claims "ridiculous at best." The more interesting tidbit is that 20% of the people answering eHarmony's questionaire are rejected outright as not the marrying type. Maybe they're on to something, but that statistic doesn't quite seem to fit with the 50% divorce rate in the US. However, if eHarmony rejects too many people, they might not be very profitable.
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