Network of Networks

The concept of "network of networks" is relatively new. If you have more than 3 accounts in different social networks, it will probably interest you. Friendfeed is an example of this new kind of networks. It is aimed to answer one simple question: "what's up?" Go to http://www.friendfeed.com to check it out.

Social Networks

For those of you who are really into social networks it worth to find out that there are consultancy companies specialised in this field. One of them is Network Weavers and if you visit their corporate blog looking for more information on social networks you wont be disappointed. 

Network Weavers is a small bricks & clicks mix founded in 2006 by three consultants specialized in creating and weaving social networks. 

Each of the consultants has a extended expertise on creating healthier networks and offer services as: social networks analysis, network mapping and metrics, network building projects as well as other specialised services. The information on the website is brief but  rather clearly presented and provides links to personal web-pages and their corporate blog.

It's worth to have a look on both the website and the corporate blog. You might also enjoy the excerpt above!

http://www.networkweaving.com/blog/ 

I facebook therefore I am... Safe?

Needless to say, facebook is a social network utility. Everybody knows that bit. If you don’t facebook you don’t exist. I know you’d say that’s taking things to the extreme.... Let’s put it this way - if you don’t facebook you miss a lot of the current, up-to-date extreme fun & interaction. Don’t you? And therefore you’re a bit ‘less’ social. And less fun. Friends can’t buy you, can’t sell you...they can’t poke you, rank you, comment at your silly status...and can’t scan through all your photos and giggle... (yes, they giggle!!!)

I started to facebook a while ago. Got too many calls and e-mails from offended friends with pending invitation. To be honest, I wasn’t keen to be on facebook after my Hi5 delirious experience. Apparently all my friends regardless of age, sex or orientation got a private message from me saying: ‘Hey Sexy! I’ve been thinking about you. I fancy you and really want to invite you over. Let me know! ’

And guess what?!?! They did let me know!!! Big time!!!

Security breach? Bad joke? Don’t know what it was but caused me months of embarrassment. At that time everybody thought that if you have an antivirus everything it’s safe. And a social network was heaven on earth... Errr, I mean heaven online! Something like that just couldn’t happen and I should admit my sinful desire of dating the whole list.

It’s very interesting how people can get very paranoid about their computers... But when they trust something. They do it fulltime! And now they trust facebook - otherwise they wouldn’t share their entire life story in there.

Just think about how easy it is to spy on a facebooker. It gives me goose-bumps!!

Glossary

facebook |fāsboŏk|
Noun
1 a place where almost everybody is: Are you on facebook?
Verb [ trans. ]
1 to spend a considerable amount of time logged in on facebook;
2 to have a facebook-related activity: I facebooked him yesterday and he didn’t even poke me back.

DERIVATIVES

facebooker (noun) - someone that has a facebook profile
facebook-aholic (noun) - a facebooker that spend most of the time logged in, has all the applications and is a billionaire on friends for sale
facebookable (adjective) = to be available on facebook