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Just how virtual are virtual social networks?

19 Sep 2008 – 20:30

I’ve been working on a social sensemaking project with Peter Pirolli at PARC. In the process of designing it, we realized that there were smaller pieces of the puzzle, so to speak, that could be investigated one at a time. The results I’m reporting here are from a study looking at just how virtual today’s [...]

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How big is your social network?

1 Aug 2008 – 16:08

I released a survey on social network size yesterday.
We’re interested in seeing what correlation (if any) exists between people’s online social network (size) and real life, actual social connections. The survey asks a few short questions for people to answer, trying to stay as specific as possible to reduce speculation and estimating on network/connection sizes…although [...]

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