# Social Graph **Domain:** Networks / Relationships / Information Systems **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Foundational ## Definition A **social graph** represents people or organizations as nodes and their relationships, communications or affiliations as edges. ## Personal-Infrastructure Context An address book is an operational social graph: a routing structure for reaching people who can communicate, corroborate history, establish trust or provide help. Destruction or compromise of that graph can isolate a target while also removing pathways for recovery. ## See Also [[wiki/Information Estate|Information Estate]], [[wiki/Social Immune System|Social Immune System]], [[wiki/Network Effects|Network Effects]]