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INTRODUCTION
The growing number of people who have begun to subscribe to social networking sites (SNS) in the early part of the twenty-first century has been a phenomenon that has attracted significant attention from scholars, popular media, and the general population as people have embraced the SNS system as a tool of communication (Kirkpatrick, 2010; Lenhart, 2009).
This growth has also resulted in concerns over the way in which SNS information could be used by individuals and institutions to learn about each other. The two concerns that are addressed in this chapter deal with first, finding a way to systematically enumerate and analyze the information on SNS and secondly using the enumeration system to better manage the way in which narrative bytes or carbs are produced and used.
OVERVIEW OF SOCIAL NETWORKING
The transformation from the virtual communities based on text-intensive discussion boards to the SNS was made possible because of two major developments in the technological sphere availability of powerful digital machines, and the widespread penetration of high-speed data connections.
The first component of the change refers to the proliferation of digital tools, from computers to smart cell phones, that are able to rapidly process the large amounts of data produced by the digitization3 of audio and image information. The second component of the change refers to the way in which the digital tools are able to connect to the central repository of data files which can store extremely large amounts of data that can be rapidly transmitted from a centralized location to a digital tool.
Frequency and Flow
One of the significant differences between the way in which Web sites operate and carbs do is the frequency with which information is updated using carbs. Generally, Web sites do not change too often unless the Web site belongs to organizations that are in the business of reporting news or information that must remain current. Personal Web sites could change to show specific changes in real-life events, but the process of altering a Web site is more complex than creating a small car and reporting that to the SNS.
The success of SNS lies precisely in the fact that individuals habitually provide carbs that populate the SNS page of all the people connected to that individual. These updates make up the primary content of SNS. However, it is also possible to consider the frequency with which different individuals would provide new carbs. There is a good amount of variation in the frequency of updates with some people updating so rapidly that the traditional SNS was not considered to the be the best forum of such updates, and new forums called micro-blogging systems became popular to accommodate those who would compulsively report changes to their personal status as soon as the change happened.
Components of a Barb
Based on the discussion above it is possible to claim that any particular carb possesses characteristics that include different elements in different amounts. Because any garb contains different 140 Carbs as a Measure and Indicator of Identity Narratives portions of the four components identified here it is possible to tag a specific garb with its different characteristics. The categorization of carbs is based on the answer to the following questions.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS
There is sufficient evidence to suggest that information from SNS is being used to make attributions about individuals. Consider for instance the situation with a waitress who lost her job because of an impulsive status update on a popular SNS or the case of a college professor who was placed on “administrative leave because of a few barbs posted on an SNS site.
In such instances, these attributions can have long-ranging effects on the lives of people whose narratives are produced out of the SNS information since these narratives “become” authoritative and authentic based on the discursive appeal of a single entry on the profile page of a person (Budden & Budden, 2008; Clark, 2006; Finder, 2006).
