The Growth of Social Network in Our Social Life

The growth of social media in my life

In the past 20-30 years, our life changed a lot. Especially the appearance of social media make our life changed a lot. Nowadays, everything is connected: people, information, events and places, all the more so with the advent of online social media. Being connected to the world around us has never been more easy and accessible than it is today. But it did not start out that way. After the Internet made it possible to reach people around the globe with merely a click of a button, social network exploded into one of the biggest industries of our time.

There are too many small steps progress of the social media that I can see during my life.

1.       The appearance of phone & mobile: I think the advent of phone make the first link of people far away from each other so that they can use this media to build a connection to each other. And when I was in junior high school, our classmates use mobile to communicate with each other frequently and it’s also the only way we can contact our friends outside.

2.       The appearance of Internet and the advent of BBS and ICQ P2P…: When I was a kid and do not have any knowledge of social science. A very small number of family have Internet and some adult around me using BBS to share their idea and communicate. A lot of people who have same hobby or interest get together in BBS and the friends could also use ICQ to send message.  And I get my first QQ account when I was 12 years old and I find it is a very efficient way to contact our friend. With the Internet comes into everybody’s home, more and more of us use QQ, E-mail, And also P2P to share our documents on the network.

3.       The social network website comes into our life: When I was an undergraduate student, many of us using Renren to share their information on the website. It also provide many online service. It provide the service consists of a presentation of the user, our social links, and a variety of additional services which make a great change of our lifestyle. Almost all of us share or push and communicate on this platform in our spare time. We could know, no matter how far our friends are and how long we have not connect with, the information and the news of them. So everything connected by the social network.

4.       Nowadays, The social media become more and more powerful and could do more things for us, not only provide the basic service for us, but also read our mind and try to understand our needs and wants. There comes some recommendation on the website for us by using Machine Learning and Data Mining technology to analyze our behavior on the network, such as, the online marketing website like Amazon and Taobao could recommend some product we need by analyze our needs before and there are also some recommendation for friends and also movies or sports…to us by learning our tweets on the social media.

The Tech We Learned

One the courses, we get more knowledge about how the provider served for us and how the computer could read our mind on the social network. The NLP is the important procedure in analyze our behavior and it could be used to analyze the tweets we pushed on the social media and also some condition and statues of us. These awesome learning algorithms build the powerful social network and analyze our mind. There are some basic idea we could get from the courses and learned some basic supervised learning function to understand the sentiment of the sentence by using the dictionary to classify the key words and try to learn their emotion. There must be more great and functional algorithm we have not learn but I believe when we go more deep during the courses and reach more tech detail in the social network, it must become more interesting and fascinating. And these is also very useful in our future academic life and work life.