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This article has been split from social network analysis. For discussion of that topic, see the talk page: Talk:social network analysis. The present article is intended to be an introduction and outline for further editing and has been marked with several areas in need of expansion. Meclee ( talk) 16:35, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Have re-routed some links to this page to social networking service. Next task is to create a disambiguation page Social_network_(disambiguation). Meclee ( talk) 18:12, 9 January 2012 (UTC) Updated disambiguation page Social_network_(disambiguation) and created similar page Social_networking_(disambiguation). Meclee ( talk) 19:12, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
Requesting semi-protection against autoposting of external links to social networking sites. Meclee ( talk) 21:05, 20 February 2012 (UTC) The request was denied. Meclee ( talk) 16:05, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Many editors want to place information about the process building personal social networks or about social networking services in this article. Please avoid putting this article into categories related to 'social networking', including the category 'Social networks.' Meclee ( talk) 16:05, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
The big one in the field is at Redondo Beach (LA) March 14-18. Please post if you are going. Bellagio99 ( talk) 23:42, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
I have no idea what is going on with this section as it includes academic domains (communication, organization studies, etc.), subfields (demography, economic sociology, etc.), and concepts (structural holes, diffusion of innovations, etc.) all mixed together. These subsections are clearly unfocused and unfairly balkanized in addition to being extremely incomplete and their content tangential (patronizing statements about communication just being a mix of other fields isn't exactly topical to summarizing social networks). Judging by the templated comment, is this intended to be a laundry list of every significant theory about networks in every domain? I surely hope not and I hope other editors will help me better scope and constrain off of extant rather than evidently ad hoc frameworks. Madcoverboy ( talk) 02:04, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
This article is quite trustworthy, unbiased, complete, and accurate. It seems to be a well written article that focus on the major issues around social networks both online and in real world communities.
-- Silnan Tol ( talk) 14:38, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
I suggest moving this page title to: Social network (sociology). Increasingly, new articles (typically about some new social networking service) link to this article instead of the social networking service article. I am notified every time this happens and have to go in and correct the internal link. I suggest creating "social network" as a DAB page once the move is accomplished. This shouldn't be too controversial, but I am posting here before implementing a move to see if there are objections that should be raised. Meclee ( talk) 17:12, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
![]() | It was proposed in this section that
Social network be
renamed and moved to
Social Network (social science).
The discussion has been closed, and the result will be found in the closer's comment. Links:
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The result of the move request was: Not moved. ( non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis ( talk) 01:19, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Social network → Social Network (social science) – Far too many editors assume "social network" has only one meaning and add or change articles about specific Social networking services and add a Social network link without checking to see if it is an appropriate link. As the creator of this page, I am notified of such new links and try to catch them and change the link to the more appropriate Social networking service, but cannot keep up with all the new links. By changing this article's name and allowing the Social network link to re-direct to Social_network_(disambiguation), DAB solvers can notify editors that they need to DAB the link. Meclee ( talk) 15:04, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
In which year social networking term come. Rishinaman ( talk) 15:11, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
I was in the hospital and did not get to respond to the opposing positions above. Facebook, LinkedIn, and various other sites and their copycats are not social networks. They are social networking services. Yes, the theory broadly applies but is not the same as the technology of implementation of the theoretical. The above posters did not feel it is a problem because they do not receive the notifications. I will wait a couple of weeks before I again request a move. Meclee ( talk) 16:16, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
![]() | This discussion was listed at Wikipedia:Move review on 16 April 2014. The result of the move review was Close was endorsed. |
![]() | It was proposed in this section that
Social network be
renamed and moved to
Social network (social sciences).
The discussion has been closed, and the result will be found in the closer's comment. Links:
current log •
target log |
The result of the move request was: Not moved ( non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis ( talk) 17:15, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Social network → Social network (social sciences) – DAB Meclee ( talk) 13:48, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
There is a prevalent tendency for Social network to be confounded with Social networking service, e.g., WebsiteX is a social network owned by CompanyY. New and revised articles about social networking services are created almost daily with many editors simply adding the internal- link Social network -- without checking to see if the link is correct -- when they actually are referring to a Social networking service. As the editor who created this page, I am notified of new links to it from other articles and find these incorrect links. It would be better to have the term Social network point only to a DAB page where editors can choose the correct term for their particular article.
I am having trouble discerning that this is different than the " Social Web". Both tend to discuss the same items, this as a " theoretical concept" and I suppose " Social Web" as a concrete example? Yet neither reference each other and appear to have similar content. ---jim 10:32, 4 July 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwilleke ( talk • contribs)
This can go to a certain extent.. Mc Mcbll ( talk) 07:42, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
These two sentences contradict, insofar as they define social network in ways that are incompatible:
1. "A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors."
2. "The social network is a theoretical construct useful in the social sciences to study relationships between individuals, groups, organizations, or even entire societies (social units, see differentiation)."
Is a social network an intersubjective thing, that operates in the physical world, or is it a construct, part of a perspective for analyzing some set of such things? I think the latter is correct.
Under definition #1, how is a social network different from any other social structure? ALL social structures are composed of social actors and relations among them. It implies that social interactions between actors are different than relational ties, but relations are patterns of interactions. Putting both separately is simply a matter of scale, like listing forests and trees as separate items.
Also, less crucially, there is no reference to objects in either definition. Relationships and interactions between actors do not exist in conceptual isolation between two actors, but in a social context consisting of a universe of objects, including various forms of capital and opportunity structures, that are often integral to the relations.
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect
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talk) 18:58, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect
Social networking and has thus listed it
for discussion. This discussion will occur at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 December 12 § Social networking until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.
Steel1943 (
talk) 21:03, 12 December 2022 (UTC)