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Research and apply the content from a minimum of three recent articles on Social Networking. Discuss your viewpoint on the topic and refer to the content from the articles to support your findings.

Thanks in advance for your findings! Please remember to cite the articles you use.

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The solution discusses three recent articles on Social Networking in 1095 words with three references.

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Suggested Title: Social Networking: A Threat to Privacy and Security?

Articles used:

1. "Mining Social Networks: Untangling The Social Web" published in the Sep 2, 2010 issue of The Economist, http://www.economist.com/node/16910031D

This article discusses about the potential of analyzing social network traffic as a means of predicting behavior through data mining. It specifically mentions that looking the person's call records in not anymore a necessity. Looking at the customers "within the context of their social network" will do the job.

Other use of data mining is to boost sales and productivity. The article relates that "companies have long mined their data to improve sales and productivity. But broadening data mining to include analysis of social networks makes new things possible."

Other findings in the article are:

- Modeling social relationships is akin to creating an "index of power"
- Analysis of e-mails help bosses manage their workers.
- The police department of Richmond, Virginia, has pioneered the use of network-analysis software to predict crimes. Police officers know that crime increases at certain times, such as on paydays and when there is a full moon. But the software lets them analyze the social networks around suspects, such as dealings with employers, collection agencies and the Department of Motor Vehicles. The goal is to "pull together a complete picture" of suspects and their social circle.
- Party plans turn out to be a particularly useful part of this picture. Richmond's police have started monitoring Facebook, MySpace and Twitter messages to determine where the rowdiest festivities will be. On big party nights, the department now saves about $15,000 on overtime pay, because officers are deployed to areas that the software deems ripe for criminal activity.
- Network analysis also has a useful role to ...

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