Danica Radovanovic

@jimmy howe i am exploring it. just observing. and now asking you on above - Danica Radovanovic

Yes, it is. Like every successful community it is too large to be unified, but it contains many, many interconnected subcommunities. - Bora Zivkovic

Also, remember that age-wise, FB is bimodal: lots of highschool/college kids are one "hump" of the curve, the 40+ techie/bloggie folks are the other. Not much in-between. The two age-groups use FB differently, but both are in some ways 'communities' - Bora Zivkovic

thank you Bora, this is what I have told her and we had argument, as she stated as she is professor and 'knows' better than me communication processes, she was stating that facebook is NOT a community, although I;ve argued back asking her what those people are doing there but interacting online and as virtual community it has all elements from profile, comment walls, invisible audiences, etc. Then she interupted me saying that I am wrong (again) and said to think after holidays more about this. She is no ex - Danica Radovanovic

she is no expert in Facebook or MySpace and she is not directing me properly. I am about to quit my PhD before I started research as I'm not satisfied with competency at BUniversity. I mean is there a point to continue if she is stating some basic things as false??? This really pi****ed me off. When will university professors extract their vanity and huge egos? - Danica Radovanovic

and what really p***s me off is that she ever heard of Christine Hine and Virtual Methodology as well she was saying bad things on my colleague d.boyd (and she doesnt even know or hear for her) about the research on social networks, that what she is doing is not valid. and I am really questioning credibility of University here, and quitting PhD - Danica Radovanovic

"I'm the professor" isn't an argument. Experience with FB and other SN tools trumps hidebound abstract theoretical proclamations. Oh, and I've got a Ph.D., too. - Tom Guarriello

@Tom Guarriello I agree with you, but it is not nice to say:'her University worths, and Berkeley (where my colleague recently got her PhD degree on this subject) is not parameter for the those proclamations. - Danica Radovanovic

Well, my point is that academic credentials do not hold sway when the experience of users is dramatically different. For example, almost five months ago, I co-founded a video-blogger centered community called VloggerHeads. In the past month, one of our most active members has suffered a heart attack and another just lost his father. The response of the members is every bit as indicative of the behavior of a community as any I've ever seen. Here's a video describing response http://tinyurl.com/9xlrdq - Tom Guarriello

Facebook is an online community. Just not a searchable, public one. - Richard Akerman