Define a social network site.
From SocialSoftwareSymposium
We asked people to define a SNS
A SNS is:
- Profile based, transverable, allow comments on other profiles
- A virtual space where the main purpose is to encourage and facilitate social representation, connections and interaction within the boundaries and limitations of the space.
- Profie, connections, norms.
- Connect people using some attributes.
- Online identity representation with connections to others
- A SNS is a website whose primary purpose is to communicate and represent an affiliation network.
- Allows representation of many-faceted seld, including connections to others.
- Users create some type of self-representation, users can make explicit links to each other, to the person - no to an artifact created by the person.
- At least partially structured, linking to/with other profies, conteact supported, persisitent, allows some sort of communication within site/tool.
- A SNS makes a social network visible and explicit.
- A def must include critical attrbutes and variable attributes.
- Placeful, use real world connections, a representation of self, sustained presence.
- SNS include profile, commentary, shares system of communication, collaboration.
- Free, global, public, profile-driven site where people connect to each others around common interests or hobbies.
- A site that allows users to create online identities through profiles containing content such as pictures, written self-descriptions, lists of interests, and friend lists.
