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Social Media Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.
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What is Social Technology? Communication tools Interactive tools Examples?
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Types of Social Technology Instant messaging Text chat Internet forums Blogs Email Social networks
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Social Media We Know Facebook MySpace Twitter Windows Live Google+ Bebo Skype
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How People Share Content on the Web
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Women in Social Technology
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Why Women use Social Media
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What’s exciting about Social Technology? 90% of Internet users know at least one social network. An average social user has 195 friends.
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Age Distribution on Social Network Sites
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Let’s take a look at some of these Social Networks
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Facebook Facts More than 800 million users More than 400 million active users log on to Facebook in any given day An average user has 130 friends -http://facebook.com
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More Facebook Facts Approximately 80% of users are outside of the United States More than 70 languages available on the site Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application -
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If Facebook Was a Country -http://pathoftheblueeye.com
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Twitter Facts Twitter started as a simple SMS-text service. 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet. 200 million Tweets per day -http://blog.twitter.com
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Twitter Facts Twitter gets more than 400,000 new users every day. There are currently ~300 million users of Twitter’s services. Over 60% of Twitter users are outside the United States. - - http://blog.twitter.com
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If Twitter Community Were 100 people -http://InformationIsBeautiful.net
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Most Followed Lady Gaga : 18 million followers Justin Bieber : 17 million Britney Spears : 12 million Barack Obama : 12 million
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Google+
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Google+ Facts The Google+ Hangouts work with Google Translate to make multi-language communication possible. With a Google + account, you get unlimited photo storage on Picasa, instead of 1GB. There is a 5000 maximum friend limit on every Google+ profile. -http://google.com
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Google+ Facts
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Six Degrees of Separation http://barnraisersllc.com/2012/04/studies-social-media-6-degrees-of-separatio/ The idea behind 6 degrees of separation is, through “friend of a friend” connections, everyone is only 6 steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person. FACEBOOK PROVES IT’S 4.74 DEGREES OF SEPARATION TWITTER SHOWS IT’S 4.67 STEPS LINKEDIN IS SET UP ON 3 DEGREES OF SEPARATION You already know them You know someone that knows them You know someone that knows someone that knows them
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Degrees of Separation on Facebook
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Six Degrees of Separation Students Your School Teacher Shenghan, Chief Microsoft Software Engineer & MIT Graduate DigiGirlz Event Organizer
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In 2003, Peter Sheridan Dodds and his colleagues at Columbia University conducted a modern version of 6 degree of separation through studying e-mails on the Internet. They recruited over 60,000 participants from 166 different countries for the experiment. By factoring in the rate of dropouts, the researchers calculated a median chain length of between 5 to 7 people. EMAIL STUDY SHOWS 5 TO 7 DEGREES OF SEPARATION
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Six Degrees of Separation Mr. Mark Harrison Broadview University Mark mentions to Mrs. White that his son, Justin Harrison, teaches History at Lehi High School. Contacts Mrs. White via Gmail to be a Guest Speaker @ Springville High in Business Communications on Tues, Feb 12, 2013 Mrs. White says that her husband, Mr. White, also teaches @ Lehi High School -- History and Business Communications -- and works very closely with Mr. Justin Harrison. Mr. White is now sharing this information with you in Business Communications @ Lehi High School. How many Degrees of Separation is that?
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Degrees of Separation on Twitter Users on Twitter can follow other users creating a network. The average distance on Twitter is 4.67. On average, about 50% of people on Twitter are only four steps away from each other. In another work, researchers have shown that the average distance of 1,500 random users in Twitter is 3.43. - http://sysomos.com
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Degrees of Separation on LinkedIn
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Why? Why Twitter users are “closer” than Facebook users? 80% of Facebook users are outside of the United States 60% of Twitter users are outside the United States
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Social Graph
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Nodes and Ties
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Facebook in Nodes and Ties
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Twitter in Nodes and Ties
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What will you do? What information do you want from people if you are going to build a new Social Network? Personal Information (Node) Friendship (Tie) Open Microsoft Word. Give us 2 topics you want to report about. Anything to do with social media. (examples: how to get a job using social media, how social media can improve your job skills, how texting helps people communicate, etc…)
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Technology Behind the Scene Challenge More than 20 billion photos on Facebook Each one is saved in four different resolutions Serves around 1.2 million photos per second Solution Haystack is Facebook’s high-performance photo storage/retrieval system
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Technology Behind the Scene Challenge So many user visits at the same time More than 80 billion photos on Facebook Database read and write is expensive Solution Memcached is a distributed memory caching system which Facebook, Twitter (and a ton of other sites) use as a caching layer between the web servers and MySQL servers
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Technology Behind the Scene BigPipe serves each web page in sections for optimal performance. -http://facebook.com
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More Challenges to come The user base for these social sites is increasing almost exponentially. This rapid growth means that these social sites will keep running into various performance bottlenecks as it’s challenged.
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What we’ve Learned Today? Social networks are very popular. More and more people are involved in them, using and developing. If you step into the Computer Science world, you can build things that are in everyone’s life!
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