Social Networking and Social Groups
Monday evenings at 10pm, my friend Amanda and I go to the gym located in the new apartments so we can work out while watching MTV's Laguna Beach. It is interesting that during this time, about 5 or 6 other girls have the same idea. Although we do not know eachother outside of the gym, we have come to know eachother through our weekly Laguna Beach evenings and have become a social network with the commonality of liking the same TV show.
Social networking is the first step to creating and maintaining social groups. Whether you are at school, at work, at a movie, at a party, or at the gym, you are forming conscience and unconscience social groups. These social groups may be strong or weak; usually school and work groups being stronger than groups formed at the movies, at parties, or at the gym. The more frequently you visit and interact at these places, the stronger social bonds tend to be. Without networks, it would be very hard to have social relationships, or any kind of relationships at all. Imagine going to work everyday, not talking to a single person throughout the day, and going home silently to your house. You would have no network and no social life at work.
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