Social
network analysis was introduced to us in the 6th lecture. This
analysis method becomes more and more popular and valuable with the rapid
development of social network. Moreover, it involves multiple disciplines and
research areas, such as data mining, knowledge management, statistical
analysis, social capital, dissemination of
information and so on. I remembered that one aphorism told that: “The successful of
a person, it does not depend on what you know, but who you know.” I think this
maxim explains that how important the relationship among people and why we do
social network analysis.
Social network analysis mainly focuses on research the relationship among a group of actors. The actors may be people, communities, organizations and even countries. In order to analyze the social network, we learnt that how to draw graphs. In my opinion, drawing graphs is a direct way for us to find out the factors and their relationships in the network. We can intuitive see that who is the centre of the relationship network and the potential links between factors. Furthermore, we can finally build the complete relationship network which could reflect part of the social structure. We may also find out the deeper relationship between factors from the graphs. For instance:
1. Kinship: parent-child relationship;
2. Emotion: like, hated, respect;
Social network analysis mainly focuses on research the relationship among a group of actors. The actors may be people, communities, organizations and even countries. In order to analyze the social network, we learnt that how to draw graphs. In my opinion, drawing graphs is a direct way for us to find out the factors and their relationships in the network. We can intuitive see that who is the centre of the relationship network and the potential links between factors. Furthermore, we can finally build the complete relationship network which could reflect part of the social structure. We may also find out the deeper relationship between factors from the graphs. For instance:
1. Kinship: parent-child relationship;
2. Emotion: like, hated, respect;
3. Occupation: official, doctor, programmer;
4.
Common property: hobbies, organizations
Figure 1 Social network analysis graph
We can see that by analyzing the social network, we can know
very detailed information of a person. I feel horrible when I realized this. We
easily exposed our personal information when we enjoy using social networking
services. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance our personal information protection
awareness. To protect our personal information, we may do the following things:
disable cookies, regularly clean the browser cache, set restricted sites, encrypt
important messages and do not reveal too much personal information on internet.
Social network analysis can help us to understand the relationship between people better. If you are also interested in this topic, please share your opinion with me.
Figure 2 Personal information protection
Social network analysis can help us to understand the relationship between people better. If you are also interested in this topic, please share your opinion with me.
Just as what you have said, personal information security is more and more important nowadays as the techniques centered on big data develop very fast. It's necessary for us all to learn more about Internet privacy.
回复删除In the class, we totally focus on how to mining data. We ignore the personal information. What you post on the internet can be crawled and what you have done can be found. We are under a big monitor. It reminds us of being careful of our behavior on the internet. It's so helpful. Thank you!
回复删除it's really glad that security is finally mentioned in your post. I'm really agree with you that with the develop of social network and more and more involved in social network, security is quite a main field we should pay attention to, it's not just protect ourselves, but also enable us to have a more relieved environment to get in touch with our friends.
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