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Internet Slang
Who Said It?
"The Strength of Ties"
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why?
Lets talk about numbers
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What does IRL stand for?
What is In Real Life?
100
"We reduce and encode our identities as words on a screen, decode and unpack the identities of others. The way we use these words, the stories (true and false) we tell about ourselves (or about the identity we want people to believe us to be) is what determines our identities in cyberspace."
Who is Rheingold
100
The stronger the tie, the more "?" the individuals have
What is similarities
100
There are two debates: the "Rich get Richer" and....
What is "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
100
True or False: The number of text messages sent and received everyday exceeds the population of the planet.
What is True
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What does AFK stand for?
What is Away From Keyboard?
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"...The strength of a tie is a (probably linear) combination of the amount of time, the emotional intensity, the intimacy (mutual confiding), and the reciprocal services which characterize the tie."
Who is Granovetter
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True or false: Strong ties form a dense network, weak ties form a less dense network.
What is True
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Social media is based on this self-fulfilling prophecy: those who do not believe in online friendships are not likely to make such connections.
What is the "Seek and Ye Shall Find" philosophy?
200
How many years did it take to reach a market audience of 50 million?
What is 2 years
300
What does TL;DR stand for?
What is "Too Long; Didn't Read?"
300
“This study contradicts the idea that people who are more social offline are more social online, as well as the notion that it is only the social misfits who use social media to make new friends as there was no difference in the number of offline friends between those who made new friends online and those who did not.”
Who is Tufekci
300
Which two friends are more likely to have lots of mutual friends: best friends or work acquaintances?
What is best friends
300
Name an advantage to meeting people online given by the reading.
What is people feel freed of the restrictions of being embodied, anonymity could create a stranger or a train effect, lack of visual cues can be liberating from social judgement. hyper personal, bonding is possible, conversation is key
300
Around what percent of the world population has an internet connection today?
40%
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What does CMC stand for?
What is "Computer Mediated Communication?"
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“The analysis of processes in interpersonal networks provides the most fruitful micro-macro bridge. In one way or another, it is through these networks that small-scale interaction becomes translated into large-scale patterns, and that these, in turn, feed back into small groups”
Who is Granovetter
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What is the “Forbidden Triad” that Granovetter talks about?
What is a network in which there is a tie between A and B and A and C but no tie between B and C. It is forbidden because the fact that A and B are friends and A and C are friends means that B and C have some relationship (even indirectly).
400
Was this a quantitative or qualitative study?
What is BOTH!
400
Approximately how much time does the average American spend on their mobile device per day?
162 minutes (A little more than 2 and 1/2 )
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What does BBS stand for?
What is "Bulletin Board System?"
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“Cyberspace is the conceptual space where words and human relationships, data and wealth and power are manifested by people using CMC technology; virtual communities are cultural aggregations that emerge when enough people bump into each other often enough in cyberspace.”
Who is Rheingold
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Is it easier to spread a rumor through people with weak ties or strong ties? Why?
What is Weak ties. People with strong ties normally share friends so the rumor will continue circulating among the same general network of people.
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True or false: Asian males are less likely to believe in online friendships that white males.
What is False. There was found to be no difference between gender, race, age, number of friends, etc.
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There are how many searches per day on Google?
What is 3.5 Billion