Social Networking Sites

A social network service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities. A social network service essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Although online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service. In a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.

List of Wikipedia social networking websites.

A group of researchers who want to create open tools, generate and host open data, and support open scholarship related to social media.

Social media is the term for all the ways people connect to people through computation.  Mobile devices, social networks, micro-blogging and location sharing are just a few of the ways people engage in computer-mediated collective action.

Mapping, measuring and understanding the landscape of social media is our mission.  We support tool projects that enable the collection, analysis and visualization of social media data.  We host data sets that are relevant to social media research.  And we will support graduate students studying and building research related to social media