Lecture 1:Social Media & Social Networking

This lecture is very interesting and it enables me to think in a different way about social and technology.

1. The top 5 most popular social networking website  are all built in America. 

I think this is interesting. And I don't think the culture of innovation of American is the only reason. Yes, the technology of American is much more advanced than many other countries. But other advanced countries such Japan and Germany don't grasp such a chance to build the business. And after some analysis I have to look for other ways to explain. In same condition, bigger country has extra needs to build a better relationship than smaller country.  And this demand, in turn, stimulate people to solve it. Of course, preparation of technology is a very important and good resource to solve such a problem.

China is also a big country with great cluture.Why she does not have a website of the top 5? I think this is because there is still a gap between the culture, especially traditional culture, and advanced technology. And this is also the reason why Chinese have less original innovation and so many cottage. But this situation is changing very  fast from many aspects. And Chinese culture is very different from American. So I think there is great chance for China.

2. By understanding the difference of social networking and traditional website, the difference of data, information, knowledge, and the difference of social media, social networking, social computing, cloud computing and so on,  we can know that cognition types and tools are changing the style and speed of knowledge created. And I think this is not the ending, but the beginning. 

3.Social Media & Social Networking are the service style and platform of relationship. In a broad sense the range of Social Media lagger than Social Networking. In a narrow sense,  the focus of the two are different. Social Media focus on media, that means focus on tools and style, while Social Networking focus on relationship.