Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Term Project Description

Online Social Networking: Better or Worse than the Real Thing?

As sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn gain considerable popularity, seemingly archaic methods of social networking are nearly lost and forgotten.  Gone are the days when a college student networked solely at parties and club meetings.  Here are the days when a college student networks through Flickr photo streams and Facebook groups.  In researching the differences between face-to-face networking and online networking, I hope to discover the social capital acquired in both realms.  In other words, I will examine people's resulting quality relationships from both face-to-face and online networking.  I will further identify how online social networking relationships progressed, whether to face-to-face meetings or to purely online "meetings."  

I will use these articles, among others, in my research.

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