My social network seems to change as my social context change. My network list is basically composed of my family and friends in school. According to my E-I index, my data shows people tends share common characteristic with me. There are three zeros in my chart. Respectively, they are context, age group, and communication way. The context influence me the most. In this column 20 percent of the participant is my family and the rest is people I know from school. About 60% of my participants are female while the other 40% is males. From that we can see that people are more likely to make friends with the same gender.
Education also plays a important role in my network, 70% of my participants have high school degree and they are all pursuing for higher education degree like me. Also most of my participant are the same age group as I am therefore, we are in the same generation and share similar background. From that we can also see that people tend to be friends who share similar background and similar education level. One possible reason that might be true is because with similar education level we have more common thoughts about the world and society.
After comparing my data with my group partners I realize that my data and my partners data are pretty similar. The participants that participate in my partners data is just like mine, we all have family and friends in school as the majority of our participants. Therefore, it’s safe to say that our environment is really a limitation for people to make friend. People would likely to make friends with people who share the same context.
From the result of my E-I index, I found out that numbers tend to be negative, which means, their friends distribution are more like my group partner. If context is the most influential factor for people to make friends, age would be the second important standard for people to make friends and set up their net work.
In conclusion, we can conclude that be people at similar age would have similar maturity-level so they can communicate with others that are also the similar age. For example, my friends and I would say that they have more or less problem to communicate with their parents, who are in a different generation and age level.