Weak tie and Strong tie

Personaly i prefer the relationship with a strong tie, but i know how much people relationships are complex and i often feel difficulties in having relationship between people, even between some of my friends.

One reason can be that we are just connected with a weak tie.
As we've learnt this week, the individual's background;language, experience/history affects on communication practices and determines the level of ties in relationship. Especially im here overcease, im experiencing many sorts of things. Oh...maybe it's good time to mention but actually im still struggling to understandand and to speakEnglish..its hard(>0<) so this blog is quite happy place where i can express myself with satisfacton without regard to right or wrong. Back to the topic!

SNS(Social Network Service) like blogs, bebo and 'mixi' (that's a japanese one) etc are examples of virtual communities and social networks (i think?) getting more popular among people. I'm not sure about this but i've heard before that recently japanese 'mixi' are becoming workers' criterion for identiy or smth among some companies in japan. Virtual communities are becoming a part of identity?!! Is it one relating to the term social capital??

I think virtual communities are relatively linked by weak tie but what makes it weak? it can be time lag, lack of emotional intensity etc because of limited way of communication. I mean it doesn't really require your background in detail to make a community, you can make a community without knowing other's background and also you can create your ideal community whatever you want through social networks. Virtual communities or social networks are very interesting things to do but i still don't know what is actually happening coz simply, i CAN'T SEE THEIR FACE!, it's kind of doubful to me haha.

Ah, i have a question from the lecture note, the concept of 'Virtual community have a significant history.'??? Anyone can explain it in detail?

The information wants to be free!?!?

Late post... I’ve got the course reader on Tuesday, finally! Anyways, the topic in this week is...was about hackers, we discussed in the Thursday class how the idea of ‘the information wants to be free’ is understood and appears in our society today etc (although I couldn’t participate well...). The internet is amazing tool as we know, people use the internet with various purposes and it’s hard to imagine the life without the internet since the internet giving us unlimited pleasure by exchanging the information faster with people sharing the same interest from all over the world. I’ve learnt the brief history of the hackers through course reader. It should not be forgotten that such a convenient tool we have is by grateful work of those hackers in 1960s! They invented the original internet from their strong curious and belief of the idea of ‘The information wants to be free’, and brought the internet into public, we have more choices through it and usually those are more sophisticated. Human curiosity is extremely strong and sometimes very powerful. When you see some kind of magic show, don’t you want to know its mysterious trick? Of course i do!! I am not a hobbyist but curiosity is always very important energy for making something better and newer. However, a development of an ethic of a free exchange of information through networks in decentralized power structure could be contradictory to privacy. An invasion of the privacy is quite a serious current issue so hackers today tend to be seen as a criminal because of their offensive works by breaking the systems, cracking, etc to get individual information. The position of hackers has been changing as society context has changed. The importance of the privacy should be emphasized to construct peaceful human society and to well corporate with people in a certain community, so I doubt an extreme favor of a free and open exchanging of infomation today is not always a happy thing to go through and we may need to watch out more carefully about our privacy. Individual may have to take responsibility for the potencial network disaster. I consider that nothing may become more expensive than information in this information society today.

Mm? Is it off topic?? Anyways i'll leave it~

Hello(^o^)/

Hi, this is my first message on my blog!(Is this right place to comment on??) I'm Chika from Japan, this is my second year in uni, majoring communication studies. Mm...cybersocieties..blogs..to tell you the truth, i'm not soo familiar with it but I'll try my best and wanna enjoy learning many things in this course with everyone(/^0^)/\(^0^\)