Katango's algorithm then analyzes profile information, interactions with friends and interactions between friends.
Wry, playful and poignant, they often portray humdrum annoyances of suburban family life and the trials of having children, owning pets and daily interactions with friends and colleagues.
In interactions with friends, we all care about examining each others' images, and we carefully emphasize the images that we present to our friends.
The Stanford study -- which was also covered prominently in the news media -- asked participants whether their interactions with friends and family had increased, decreased or stayed the same after using the Internet.
Paul Zak, a neuroeconomist at Claremont Graduate University and the director of its Center for Neuroeconomics Studies, studies the power of story in our daily interactions with friends, strangers, books, television, and other media.
All of us have seen it and felt it in a variety of small and large ways: in gentler, politer interactions with friends and strangers; in an outpouring of charitable giving and volunteer activity; in tableaux of fellowship among political and civic leaders.
Instead, wrote Nick Thomas, an analyst at Forrester, "real-world social interaction with friends remains important for online teens".
I'd have sought out ways to find the interaction with friends that I need, much as I find ways to have those interactions around my work now.
Interaction with friends through walls, blogs and voice chat.
