This article is about relationships in social networks. For the term that encompasses all relationships between individuals in the world or the World Wide Web, see Social network. A drawing of a graph in which each person is represented by a dot called a node and the friendship relationship is represented by a line called an edge This animation shows the different types of relations between social
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