We are living in an interconnected world where people can communicate their ideas and feelings in a spur of a moment with anyone in this world. We are surrounded by online social networking sites and platforms where we daily commute and communicate.
Today we have an opportunity to stay closer with our friends and families through these social network. A social network is a theoretical construct useful in the social sciences to study relationships between individuals, groups, organizations, or even entire societies . The term is used to describe a social structure determined by such interactions. The ties through which any given social unit connects represent the convergence of the various social contacts of that unit. This theoretical approach is, necessarily, relational. An axiom of the social network approach to understanding social interaction is that social phenomena should be primarily conceived and investigated through the properties of relations between and within units, instead of the properties of these units themselves.
Thus, one common criticism of social network theory is that individual agency is often ignored, although this may not be the case in practice. Precisely because many different types of relations, singular or in combination, form these network configurations, network analytics are useful to a broad range of research enterprises. In social science, these fields of study include, but are not limited to anthropology, biology, communication studies, economics, geography, information science, organizational studies, social psychology, sociology, and sociolinguistics.
Social networking is a recent invention that has the Internet still at the edge of its seat due to its popularity with people. This is mostly because it really is for the people. Bringing every kind of social group together in one place and letting them interact is really a big thing indeed.
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