phenomenon in the past several years. What started out as a hobby for some computerliterate people has become a social norm and way of life for people from all over the
world (Boyd, 2007). Teenagers and young adults have especially embraced these sites as
a way to connect with their peers, share information, reinvent their personalities, and
showcase their social lives (Boyd, 2007).
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and a set of the dyadicties between these actors. The social networks perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaning the patterns observed in these structures.