Educational Technology

February 24, 2011

Facebook App Reveals Your Social Cliques

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:40 am

By Tom Simonite, Technology Review

Socializing online and in the real world may be edging ever closer, but one stark difference remains: it’s much easier to juggle different groups of friends offline than it is online. A new tool developed at Stanford University addresses the problem by automatically working out a person’s different and overlapping friendship groups by analyzing the history of their Facebook or Gmail account. The tool—called SocialFlows—is available as a Facebook app. Once a Facebook user connects it with their account, they can extract their social groups in two ways. The researchers’ software can either work from the images a person was tagged in over the last two years, or from the pattern of e-mail recipients recorded in the last two years via a Gmail account.

http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/32394/?p1=A3

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