life cycle of social network

Currently, social network owns the hottest topic in people’s life. The real system belongs to the complex physics model and data-mining area. Social network, like facebook.com, myspace.com and twitter.com, is a real-time complex system. Author tries to introduce a model [1] to predict the life cycle of the social network.

     A social network is a social structure made up of a set of actors (such as individuals or organizations) and the dyadic ties between these actors. The social network perspective provides a clear way of analyzing the structure of whole social entities. The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.