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This discussion seems really very interesting, but I'm wondering why people
always have to put "barriers to the open land", which is a Spanish
expression to say that it doen't make sense to draw the burdens to broad
concepts.
We can discuss what social network means to eachone of us, and we probably
would argue years. But when we're dealing with people ( no human animals
have also social life) I cannot easily find networks that are no social.
I'm not sure if this is different to what has been said.
Sorry if I missed something.
Oriol

Oriol Miralbell Izard
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Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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2008/4/17, MARKKU LONKILA (SOSIO) <[log in to unmask]>:
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> Dear socnetters,
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> I want to stir the pot of social network definitions with a question
> about the notion of `social´ in social networks. Can a five-year-old
> German shepherd belong to one´s social network? How about a one-month-
> old baby? Compared to the dog, the small baby is clearly much less
> communicative and interactive. Moreover, the dog may well be as
> central to one´s `social´ life (e.g. though connecting the owner with
> other dog owners and dogs) than the network member with human dna...
>
> Markku Lonkila
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