A recent article that I came upon in the New York Times that I thought is relevant for our class was about social networking moving to cell phones leaving computers. I think this is rather prevalent in social networks as they become more and more dynamic. As technology changes networking evolves, networks naturally develop into new forms.
I think that with the oncoming of mobile cell phone networks, and mobile social networking, information cascades will occur more and more through technology through different locations, rather than through word of mouth. In addition as mentioned in the network the anonymity of the network and the diversity of the individuals will lead to more random cascades. In addition the possibility of them ending becomes much larger as more information from different sources becomes available.
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