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The connections are held together by explicit relationships (people links) and interests (forum links) and do not depend on discussion content.
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Social networking, on the other hand, enables individual members to share explicit relationships with people and forums. Members use their home pages as rich representations of their preferences- which enable them to express their identity through explicitly shared forum membership and connections to other members.
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In most traditional online communities, members have profiles that may display a picture, location, recent posts and membership tenure at most. These profiles can provide valuable context to the community, but they are often peripheral to the discussions and remain somewhat hidden.
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What enables many of the differences I outline below is the way in which social networking communities use the member profiles or member homepages to build identity.
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In contrast, social networking communities have elevated the user profile to become more like a user homepage that displays a very rich and contextual set of information. The member home pages are not peripheral to the discussions or a subset of the community; they are at the very core of the system.
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social networking communities have elevated the user profile to become more like a user homepage that displays a very rich and contextual set of information. The member home pages are not peripheral to the discussions or a subset of the community; they are at the very core of the system.
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In traditional online communities, discussion is the center of the interaction and identity building. Members create relationships (and their own community identities) based on information they post in online discussions
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identities can be built based on the display of the member’s choices of memberships in forums and connections to other people (among other things) on their home page.
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Relationships in traditional communities are rarely made explicit.
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In traditional online communities, discussion is the center of the interaction and identity building. Members create relationships (and their own community identities) based on information they post in online discussions. A comparatively small number of all members in any online group choose to actively participate in discussions- most “lurk”. In this situation, the ability for any single member to build an identity hinges upon participation in discussions.
In contrast, social networking enables the creation of identity in the community without participation in discussion. By allowing members to have a personal homepage (instead of a user profile), identities can be built based on the display of the member’s choices of memberships in forums and connections to other people (among other things) on their home page.
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Often, traditional online communities are managed so that new forums are built within a specific structure
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An example of bucketed forums may be Technology-->Internet-->Online Communities-->Moderation Techniques-->Dealing with Spammers.
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In social networking, the creation of new forums is done in a more emergent way and within a flatter hierarchy. A single member is free to create a new forum without placing it into a preset hierarchy.
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n traditional online communities, connections to particular forums or sub-communities are implicit. Members connect with forums by reading or participating in them, but do not make their preferences of forums explicit in the community.
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New forums are a child of the whole system instead of being a child of a more general branch of the system. As new forums gain membership/popularity, they have equal opportunity to gain visibility in the system, similar to the weblog community.
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Traditional discussion-based communities use discussion and/or organizations of discussions as the primary form of navigation.
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Social networking, on the other hand, enables individual members to share explicit relationships with people and forums. Members use their home pages as rich representations of their preferences- which enable them to express their identity through explicitly shared forum membership and connections to other members.
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Further, forums within a community display explicit links to those members who have chosen to join the group. In this case, the forum becomes an aggregator of all the members who have chosen to join and links directly to their personal home pages.
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In social networking, the creation of new forums is done in a more emergent way and within a flatter hierarchy. A single member is free to create a new forum without placing it into a preset hierarchy.
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Traditional discussion-based communities use discussion and/or organizations of discussions as the primary form of navigation. Members navigate from forum to forum like nodes in a network, with each forum often having a different focus, informal membership and sometimes culture. Rarely are members able to navigate using other resources than forums or discussions.
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Social networking enables a new level of community navigation.
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members have home pages and displayed on those pages are explicit links to other members and groups. Further, groups display links to members who have joined the group.
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The connections are held together by explicit relationships (people links) and interests (forum links) and do not depend on discussion content.
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Tom Hemingwayinteresting discussion of the characteristics of communities versus networks
community collaboration socialnetworking for:sivadeel for:jamesfk
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Leigh BlackallWhat are the significant differences between social networking and more traditional online communities? How would I describe the differences?
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What are the significant differences between social networking and more traditional online communities? How would I describe the differences?
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Comparing Social Networking to Online Communities
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Comparing Social Networking to Online Communities
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Comparing Social Networking to Online Communities
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14 Dec 04
Seb PaquetI visit Ryan’s Page and see he is a member of the Rock Climbers Forum, so I visit that forum and see Sharon is a member, so I go to Sharon’s page, where I see that she is connected to Jason, who is a member of the Kayakers forum. I didn’t even know
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