Thomas Vander Wal gives in this presentation an overview of the complexity in real social network relationships and visualization to help understand the key points that matter - people and interests. Here is a write-up of his view.

Josie Fraser elaborates on this in her posting on SocialTech “Signal vs Noise”. Fraser: “Van der Wal tracks the complexity of relationships within and across networks, making interesting and important points about the overlapping of interests and following behaviours between connections”

Josie stresses “the relatively haphazard relationship most followers necessarily have within social networking service relationships and draws attention to the fact that: “what is signal and what is noise doesn’t consist of objective content that we can necessarily pre-determine“.

Thomas Vander Wal gives in this presentation an overview of the complexity in real social network relationships and visualization to help understand the key points that matter - people and interests. Here is a write-up of his view.
Josie Fraser elaborates on this in her posting on SocialTech “Signal vs Noise”. Fraser: “Van der Wal [...]