Healthy amount of social interaction, negative results occur with health/economics/political participation.
Network Design Ideas:
find out how many people have fakester profiles of any kind (pseudo emails reserved for spam accounts, sarcastic online profiles, fake phone voices, ways they avoid revealing true self to maintain privacy)
reasons for faking?
does fakester side affect actual physical personality in any way?
look at social pressures that cause people to fake or avoid social networks altogether -- even at ITP there are people we don't really know or ever see. how difficult is it for them in an environment as social as ITP?
survey/interview sample of Gen X & Gen Y people about friendships, means of communication - compare the 2. only ~10 yrs difference, but the social models for each generation differs immensely
Pay It Forward (2000)
Basic Synopsis: A teacher gives his students an assignment: " Come up with an idea that will change the world." The student comes up with the idea to make a difference in three people's lives, and then have each of them make a difference in three other people's lives, which will increase exponentially.