Social Psychology - Social Networks!

Do any of you use "Social Networks" as examples during your Social Psychology units? I'd love to hear how you all tie Facebook, Twitter, etc. to psych. concepts.

Some resources about this topic:

• this is a thoughtful recent blogpost about "The Secret Psychology of Facebook" - good starting place, but needs to be tied to specific research/concepts? Empathy? Altruism? Conformity? Ingroup/Outgroup?
• an older post from this blog about social networks: Social Psychology of Social Networking
• this Radiolab about Facebook's "research arm" is fascinating/spooky "The Trust Engineers"

posted by Rob McEntarffer

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