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This enables us gain insights into our increasingly connected world. We are able to systematically understand social networks. In social networks, we have connections (ties) in different ways: with people, we share the same interests (trust relationships), those we are friends with (social Friendships), and with those we are just connected unwillingly (backgrounds) or unknowingly (activities).