COMP 3601

Assignment 0

Due Anytime September 20, 2016

1) Identify 15 different, active social network sites, not including Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, or Twitter. Do this in a feature table (rows are applications, columns are features). Attempted to identify as many common and (at least 3) different features of each application in your table. Put a tick in the corresponding application's column if it has the feature. Below the table, define/describe each feature. Make sure to identify the social objects involved with each social network.

2) Find (with references) and identify 5 definitions of a social networking. What is each definition's major distinction?

3) What is the social capital that an individual and/or a group accumulates in each of your identified social networks? How would you measure a value for the social capital in each social network?