In the lecture 4 & 5, we have learned what
a good blog should contain. Besides, the lectures remind of us that the social
medias are valuable for marketing, for they can help to connect the buyers or
the similar products together to promote the products etc. They can also set up
the connection who have the same interests in some aspects. People interact
with each other and set up a network which leads to the development of social
computing and other applications.
After having
some knowledge about the social computing and doing the calculation in recent
classes, I think the social network both shortens the distance between people
and endangers us to some degree.
I
would like to mention two concepts here: Six degrees of separation and Human flesh
search.
Six degrees of
separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six
steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth, so that a
chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average,
to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. It was originally set out by
Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by a play written by John Guare.
The concept is
appropriate when the network is not taken into consideration. Nowadays we can
leave a message to the people directly especially on Facebook or Twitter etc.
Social network has made the distance between people to become even shorter.
In this case,
how to use the social network to reach your goals is a meaningful issue or
skill. Can you get the hiden information or find the relation after reading
several news about different people? Or can you find the potential market in
the social network? Or can you find the exact people and get to contact with
him/her? Although social network can help us solve some problems which cannot be
solved before, there is still a problem that it can be used to do human flesh
search.
Human Flesh
Search is a primarily Chinese internet phenomenon of massive researching using
Internet media such as blogs and forums. It has generally been stigmatized as being
for the purpose of identifying and exposing individuals to public humiliation,
usually out of Chinese nationalistic sentiment, or to break the Internet
censorship in the People's Republic of China
It brings people
harm. People may be interested in the life of someone perhaps he/she made a
small mistake in the public or perhaps he/she is simply a "nerd".
Once the human flesh search of him/her begins, nothing of him/her will be
privacy. This might finally lead to the collapse of him/her and even the whole
family.
If you want to know exactly about the Six degrees of separation, you can watch the video below. Reprinted from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVhx96Oml3U.
The concepts of Six degrees of separation and Human flesh search you mentioned are interesting. I think it illustrates the power of relationship and a fact that the links between humans are much more closer than previously thought. This give us a new perspective to understand the world.
回复删除You can try to imagine how you can get in contact with Tang Yingnian directly or you can try to put it into practice.^^
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删除I really believe the power of the Six Degrees of Separation theory. And I can share an experience of my friend who has used the theory. That is very impressive. One day when he go home, he encountered a girl in trouble. He went to help her and known her name. He did not ask any other things but only known she is a student of another school in another city. Then about two months he almost forgot such a thing until he read an article about Six Degrees of Separation theory. He want to have a try to find out the girl. He spent sometime to make a plan. Then he write four mail with same cover which has a sentence at the back to describe the event. And send the mail to that school. At last, about one month past, he really receive the reply of the girl. We both surprised at the power of the theory.
删除Wow, that is really interesting. Perhaps I can try it sometime in the future. And I am a little concern about the result of the two guys.^^
删除It's interesting, especially in the translation of 'Human Flesh Search <>人肉搜索'. This was really a new topic among the society, especially its implications to personal data privacy.
回复删除Yes. Now we have learned the last lecture about social network security. Do you have any other ideas about the protection of personal data privacy? Social network has been so widely used nowadays. Perhaps what we should do lies in how to improve the concept of respect for the others' privacy and build up related law.
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回复删除I am pleased to learn something very useful about Six degrees of separation and Human flesh search.I have read the example before and I feel it is quit unbelievable.However,after learning some knowledge on social networking,I feel it might be true because researchers can get the truth after checking or analyzing the relationship between you and me on the social network.
回复删除To have more practical feelings about the six degrees of separation, I think you can have a talk with Wang Bin as you can read some from his comments on this page. Maybe you will be interested in talking with him.
删除Yes, I agree with your idea. I think the flesh search issue is very significant in China and there is such a void of detailedly analysis of it in the perspective of social networking.
回复删除Yes. It is perhaps because that China has a large population. Then how do you think the detailed analysis in the perspective of social networking can be avoided?
删除I really like your blog, which is well written and more than a blog, haha~ You choose Facebook as an example to introduce the security issues of social networking, which is easy for us to understand. It is also very practical to know the settings on Facebook. At last, thank you for your sharing, I think your tips will be very helpful for us to protect ourselves. Security is always a big issue, we should pay more attention to it.
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