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 I'm glad you enjoyed my paper. Your comment about the differentiation between social networking sites is correct: different types of social networks carry with them different benefits and drawbacks, and consequently affect cognitive processes differently. However, I wouldn't divide the types of networks I'm talking about into only two groups (social and educational). Really, there are many degrees and many types of online social networks: social, educational, and everything in between. In the context of open-source programming, the social network at issue may not be what one would traditionally think of as a traditional online social network like Myspace. I'll try to make these distinctions more obvious in my next revision of the paper.

-- ScottMcKinney - 30 Dec 2009

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Scott,

Interesting paper. I hadn't considered groupthink effects within social networks, but I suspect you and the study you cite are correct that it is problematic. I have no specific suggestions on the current content of your essay except to note it might be helpful if you talked briefly about the ways to fix the problem you identified (e.g. those discussed in the final link, or others you know of). You do a good job of identifying a problem and convincing the reader it is a problem worth addressing, so it would be helpful if you lent that same descriptive skill to suggesting how to solve the problem we readers are now attending to. A few sentences would accomplish that, one of which could incorporate the link you are citing now. Just a thought. Nice work, it reads well.

-- BrianS - 06 Jan 2010

 
 
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