Social Network(week5)

People in the world are not only connected directly but also indirectly. For example, even though they don't know each other directly or even to whom they are associated, they can be connected by similar interests or kind of jobs they have and so on.
There were several tryings to define how closely people are associated. One of them is a kind of experiment done by Stanley Milgram titled "The small world problem". The experiment had been done in reality from people to people. I must be so complicated to check if everythings are going well everyday and get results from it. But thanks for his effort, we can know that people are connected in six degrees. It's interesting!
Social networks were used effieciently as technology. In this case, relations among people's tastes for each subjects were useful. For example, websites for shopping made use of social networks in people's interest very well. When one persom buy something from the website, the website automatically search for other objects which other people who already had bought the same thing used to buy and suggest the objects to the shopper.
To visualize something complicated things in simple form is good work. Also there are visualized form about social networks. Some people did it by hand and some people did it by using computer programs. Epecially because social networks are keep changing even moment by moment, it is good to show its changing situation.

It was interesting that just the social network itself could be thought from different backgrounds(?) such as science, technology, art and so on. It's getting closer that media and social cannot be seperated. May be I will try to visualize my relations with my hand someday.