Question 1
Besides the physical distance that make the online social networking necessary or meaningful to reduce the isolation issue, under what other contexts that people feel the online social networking make them feel connected from each other?
Why I asked this question is from my personal experience. As a international student, online social networking like Facebook, MSN live and Skype are very efficient tools for me to keep in touch with friends and family far back in home town or any other places all around the world. But for people, like students they studied in the same class or school every day and can meet each other face to face? Why some of them still use social networking to keep in touch? I am wondering what is the drive behind the behaviors.
Question 2
Golder & Donath (???) mentioned that there are two components of roles an individual plays in social contexts. One is about the person’s perception about his capacities like skills, privileges and responsibilities. Another is the about social context and others. It mainly deals with the expectation other people have on that individual and his/her behaviors. Thus my question is in an online community on the developing stage, if the trust, norms and communication devices are not yet fixed or reaching a certain level of agreement, what kind of roles or behaviors or chaos will show on that transitional period? Or usually what will you react in that kind of situation? Let say two situations one is in a new online international working project the mediator doesn’t set a good path for ice-breaking or building up the community. Second is in after-school social meeting, you use a web2.0 tools to meet people who have same hobby as you, you are a novice in building up on-line social network, some new members are just joining and you guys are learning to know each other. What will you react in the period for building the community.
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