Online Social Network (OSN) Service

A Online Social Network (OSN) Service is a social networking system that can create a Virtual Community.

• AKA: Social Networking Service (SNS), Online Social Networking System.
• Context:
  • It can solve a social networking task.
  • It can manage a Social Network Dataset.
  • It can range from being a Centralized Social Network, to being a Distributed Social Network, to being a Decentralized Social Network.
  • It can range from being a Professional Networking Service, to being ...
• Example(s):
  • a Centralized Social Network such as:
    • LinkedIn Service.
    • Facebook Service.
    • Twitter Service.
    • Orkut.
    • Friendster.
    • MySpace.
  • a Decentralized Social Network such as:
    • Diaspora (https://diasporafoundation.org),
    • SafeBook (Cutillo et al., 2011),
    • SuperNova (Sharma & Datta, 2012),
    • Vis-a-Vis (Shakimov et al., 2011),
  • a Semi-Decentralized Social Network such as:
    • Personal OSN (Baden et al., 2009),
  • an Online Dating Service, such as Match.com.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Social Media Service.
  • a Blogging Service.
• See: Social Network Analysis Task, Collaboration System, Online Service, LinkedIn Social Network, facebook Social Network, Decentralized Network, Centralized Network, Distributed Network.

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References

2023

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  • Social networking services are primarily focused on connecting users and fostering relationships between them. These platforms allow users to create profiles, connect with friends, family, and acquaintances, and engage in various forms of communication such as private messaging, commenting, and sharing content. Examples of social networking services include Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. ...
  • In summary, while both social networking and social media services share some common features, social networking services are more focused on fostering connections and communication between users. In contrast, social media services emphasize content creation and sharing.

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service Retrieved:2021-10-2.
  • A social networking service or SNS (sometimes called a social networking site) is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.

    Social networking services vary in format and the number of features. They can incorporate a range of new information and communication tools, operating on desktops and on laptops, on mobile devices such as tablet computers and smartphones. This may feature digital photo/video/sharing and diary entries online (blogging). Online community services are sometimes considered social-network services by developers and users, though in a broader sense, a social-network service usually provides an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Generally defined as "websites that facilitate the building of a network of contacts in order to exchange various types of content online," social networking sites provide a space for interaction to continue beyond in person interactions. These computer mediated interactions link members of various networks and may help to create, sustain and develop new social and professional relationships. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, digital photos and videos, posts, and to inform others about online or real-world activities and events with people within their social network. While in-person social networking – such as gathering in a village market to talk about events – has existed since the earliest development of towns, the web enables people to connect with others who live in different locations, ranging from across cities to the ends of earth (of course, one must have internet connection to do so). Depending on the social media platform, members may be able to contact any other member. In other cases, members can contact anyone they have a connection to, and subsequently anyone that contact has a connection to, and so on. The success of social networking services can be seen in their dominance in society today, with Facebook having a massive 2.13 billion active monthly users and an average of 1.4 billion daily active users in 2017. LinkedIn, a career-oriented social-networking service, generally requires that a member personally know another member in real life before they contact them online. Some services require members to have a preexisting connection to contact other members. With COVID-19, Zoom has taken an integral place to connect people located around the world and facilitate many online environments such as school, university, work and government meetings. The main types of social networking services contain category places (such as age or occupation or religion), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and a recommendation system linked to trust. One can categorize social-network services into four types:

    • socialization social network services used primarily for socializing with existing friends (e.g., Facebook, Instagram) *online social networks are decentralized and distributed computer networks where users communicate with each other through internet services.
    • networking social network services used primarily for non-social interpersonal communication (e.g., LinkedIn, a career- and employment-oriented site)
    • social navigation social network services used primarily for helping users to find specific information or resources (e.g., Goodreads for books, Reddit)
  • There have been attempts to standardize these services to avoid the need to duplicate entries of friends and interests (see the FOAF standard). A study reveals that India recorded world's largest growth in terms of social media users in 2013. A 2013 survey found that 73% of U.S. adults use social-networking sites.

2009a

• (Baden et al., 2009) ⇒ Randy Baden, Adam Bender, Neil Spring, Bobby Bhattacharjee, and Daniel Starin (2009). "Persona: An Online Social Network with User-defined Privacy". In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 Conference on Data Communication ACM (SIGCOMM 09).

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