when the first time I come in social networking class ,I consider that social networking is talking about how people will behavior on social network site only. I regard social network as a platform for individuals to announce a variety of point of view and vice versa get other people's view about the topics which interesting them. and my first blog reflects my original cognition of social network.
I realize that social networking is far more interesting and diversified both in social psychology part and technical area after almost a whole term. However,I'd like to talk about what's new I have learned of both these two parts.
The most significant knowledge I get from the social psychology part is that environment has great impact on individuals according to SCT(social cognitive theory) so that we should make great efforts to putting ourselves locate in better groups. However,lots of people knows the theory and they continually try to do this. E.g,students always struggle to let themselves enrolled in top universities such as CUHK while employees always try to jump into better enterprises even though small companies sometimes provide more competitive treatments.
However,in my humble opinion,these people only realize part of SCT but ignore the other part which is also important: individuals in the group will also affect the environment which means that sometimes may be it's a better choice to netting your world better rather than netting a new world. For example,sometimes the opportunity for people make themselves enrolled in the top enterprises such as Google or Microsoft. Actually,this kind of fact always disappointing you. However,it doesn't obstruct you to make work harder in your current group and make enviable achievements. What's more,your hard-working will encourage other members in the group and ultimately make your group to be a better one.
This course makes me have more cognition on social networking not only in the social psychology side. When we talk about technical part ,semantic web is the part which most amazing me.
We all have the concept that IOT(Internet of things) may be a new revolution in information engineering filed which I consider that it's true. What's more,as far as I can see,semantic web will be such an important part of IOT that everyone should have the basic concept and awareness on it. Computers will no longer 'computers' but also true 'processors' within the help of semantic web technology. I think that semantic web will be widely used in searching area at first. Rather than putting into some simple key-words in the search bar and get several links from the social network like today,I consider that the searching procedure will be far more interesting in the future.For example,sometimes we cannot describe one thing both precisely and briefly by using characters but it maybe easier to be done by using figures.Perhaps we can put several pictures into search bar which we think can represent for things we want to search for instead of some key-words,and after then the social network site could understand the meaning of these pictures by using some multimedia processing algorithms and accurately put the answers back to clients.
However,I think that the development of semantic web is not only things about technology but also need perfect knowledge of various fields. Netting a strong enough world is obviously very important to push forward the development of semantic web. After all,individual's energy and talent is finite and no one can be an expert in every area.All in all,information is the most valuable resource at the present times.
Wow, every one of your blog has a fantastic title which is totally different from my boring and dull one. And obviously, I should try to change my style~ What impress me a lot in this blog is the sentence 'it's a better choice to netting your world better rather than netting a new world'. I totally agree with your point. People always tend to buy something new when their things don't work well and seldom consider fixing them. Same as the way we treat our world. So, when we are not satisfied with the condition we are in, we may look for ways to improve ourselves rather than change an environment immediately.
回复删除I can see that you have really learned a lot about social networking. So keep going, hope our team can do a great job next Monday!
回复删除I agree with you, and i also have a similar progress when taking this course, at beginning, i thought this course is just talking about some online social networking site, but after several topics, i realized that there are so much knowledge behind the title, which is very interesting and useful on researching human behaviors.
回复删除Undoubtedly, senmatic web is a potential technology in the furture internet field. But how to improve the effective of ontology storage, visit and search, we have to research furture.
回复删除yeah! I also feel interested about the semantic web. it surprised me! I guess when the semantic web get mature, it is the new age of the internet. All the internet service or products will be totally different, even the form of social networking will change a lot!
回复删除I like you idea, netting own world is better rather than netting a new world. You wirte more on the indivudual's influence. Actually, if everyone in the group do well, the group will go well. The ability of one person is small, but that of more persons will go bigger. So we can't ignore our influence for the environment.
回复删除It is a custom for every to change their environment once they are not adapt to it well. That's what you said by "employees always try to jump into better enterprises", I think it is reasonable. According to SCT, effects between individuals and environment are bidirectional. One's intern cognition will change after they exchange the outer cognition, which might result in the restructure of whole knowledge frame. So I think maybe that is why people live in the same situations usually have a similar knowledge structure.
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