Social mechanisms in facebook

Probably many have seen the presentation of Paul Adams The Real Life Social Network , which tells us that social connections in life are much more complicated than on social networks. Adams has an example: a certain Debbie user is friends with several gays and comments on them in photos. But at the same time, Debbie teaches 10-year-old children and they are also friends with her. Of course, Debbie doesn’t want the children to see her comment on her gay friends.

Yesterday I came across a post in which the author assumes that a similar system is already running on facebook. That it automatically determines the social groups of people, builds them according to the social status within the group. In fact, in order that information would not easily penetrate from one social group to another. But at the same time for users it is transparent.

If we look at what facebook gives us in Top News, then you can really see that some of the topics pass by you. And by the reaction of your dreys or the absence of a reaction to your topics, you can understand that some topics pass by your friends. If you have many friends and there really are completely different social groups that are not related to each other, then this becomes very noticeable.