Ang Social Network sa Facebook ng mga Taga-Batangas at ng mga Taga-Laguna: Isang Paghahambing

[English Abstract] Online social networking (OSN) has become of great influence to Filipinos, where Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and Instagram are among the popular ones. Their popularity, coupled with their intuitive and interactive use, allow one’s personal information such as gender, age, address, relationship status, and list of friends to become publicly available. The accessibility of information from these sites allow, with the aid of computers, for the study of a wide population’s characteristics even in a provincial scale. Aside from being neighbouring locales, the respective residents of Laguna and Batangas both derive their livelihoods from two lakes, Laguna de Bay and Taal Lake. Both residents experience similar problems, such as that, among many others, of fish kill. The goal of this research is to find out similarities in their respective online populations, particularly that of Facebook’s. With the use of computational dynamic social network analysis (CDSNA), we found out that the two communities are similar, among others, as follows: 1. Both populations are dominated by single young female; 2. Homophily was observed when choosing a friend in terms of age (i.e., friendships were created more often between people whose ages do not differ by at most five years); and 3. Heterophily was observed when choosing friends in terms of gender (i.e., more friendships were created between a male and a female than between both people of the same gender). This paper also presents the differences in the structure of the two social networks, such as degrees of separation and preferential attachment. [Filipino Abstract] Ang online social networking (OSN) sa Internet ay kasalukuyang may malaganap na impluwensiya sa buhay ng mga Pilipino, kung saan ang Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, at Instagram ay ilan sa mga sikat. Ang kasikatan at pagiging madaling magamit ng mga OSN ay nagbigay daan para ang personal na impormasyon katulad ng kasarian, gulang, pook na tinitirahan, estadong pang-sibil at mga listahan ng mga kaibigan ay maging pampublikong kaalaman. Dahil dito, sa tulong ng paggamit ng kompyuter, napapadali ang pag-aaral sa mga katangian ng mga populasyon sa mas malawak na iskala, kahit kasing lawak ng mga lalawigan. Surian ng Agham Pang-kompyuter Surian ng Kapnayan