
Online Social Networks ◾ 163
Although Zuckerberg is widely credited with inventing this term, Fraser and Dutta (2009)
point out that the term has been used by sociologists for decades.
In the real world, the social graph is the map of the social connections that people have.
A distinguishing feature of Facebook as opposed to some other SNSs, is that its founders
were not trying to create a social graph, but rather to mirror what existed already (Lacey
2008): to show who knew who on campus.
However, increasingly, the Facebook graph has also begun to include the connections
between people and other information artefacts within the site, ...