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Social networking services (SNS) allow a user to create and maintain an online network of close friends or business associates for social and professional reasons. There has been an explosion in the number of online social networking services in the past five years, so much so that the terms YASN and YASNS (Yet Another Social Network[ing Service]) have become commonplace. However, these sites do not usually work together and therefore require you to re-enter your profile and redefine your connections when you register for each new site. There are also deficiencies in the traditional idea of a social network as a set of individuals and relationships, in that it does not consider the shared objects which bring people together, and the semantics that can be used to represent these interlinked people and objects.

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Breslin, J.G., Passant, A., Decker, S. (2009). Social networks. In: The Social Semantic Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01172-6_10

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