A friend of mine, Bernie Hogan, has created a Facebook application for capturing your social network of friends on Facebook as a UCINET data file so it can be imported into social network analysis tools. It is called My Online Social Network - Phase 1. Cool! There are also other Facebook applications that show your social networks, one is Nexus, which visualizes the social network as a graph. The Nexus app is cool, it generates the graph in real time and shows clusters or subgroups that represent your close friends together. The graph showed a cluster of my U of T friends, my University of Waterloo classmates from undergrad, my friends from TorCamp and my Nokia colleagues. You can also find a friend from the friend graph, change the layout to be radial instead of a spring graph.
Very cool, so try out these apps on Facebook!
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