What is the social chart?
In connection with the Internet, the term "social graph" usually concerns the connection between people who participate in social networking services such as Facebook, Livejournal, LinkedIn or MySpace. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used this term, as well as the term social network in discussion on relations between Facebook users and how these relationships can create what he calls a richer online experience. In mathematics, the graph is an abstract representation of relationships between things and can be used to model various natural and artificial systems such as energy grids, economies, cells and global website. The social graph can be illustrated by drawing a diagram where individuals are represented by nodes or dots and their connections are represented by lines drawn between nodes. The term can be used both to link to the actual network of connections between individuals and a diagram that shows the representation of these relationships.
termsThe social network and social graph are closely linked. Social networks usually refer to the real world relationships, while social graphs describe internet relationships, making them represent the social system online. However, the difference is not sharp. The real world companies can be referred to as social graphs where individuals are connected because they are connected or because they know each other from different social environments such as work and school. Brad Fitzpatrick, the programmer and creator of LIVEJOURNAL, described the social graph as "global mapping of all and how they are connected".
various social networking services have their own social graphs, which are usually completely separated from each other. In 2008, Google Inc. started. The API Social Graph API, which is supposed to allow various websites, including social networks that use publicly available information from various online social graphs. In this context, the social chart includes not only relationships between individuals but also a connectionEntrants with virtual objects such as photos, pages and events.
advocates claim that this use of social graphs will make it easier for people to interact with their entire social network online, no matter what social networks or websites are approaching. Critics call it a possible invasion of personal privacy. Some also claimed that each individual should have ownership and control over its online social graph and personal data it contains.