The idea of a social cloud has emerged as a resource sharing paradigm in a social network context. Undoubtedly, state-of-the-art social cloud systems demonstrate the potential of the social cloud acting as complementary to other computing paradigms such as the cloud, grid, peer-to-peer and volunteer computing. However, in this note, we have done a critical survey of the social cloud literature and come to the conclusion that these initial efforts fail to offer a general framework of the social cloud, also, to show the uniqueness of the social cloud. This short note reveals that there are significant differences regarding the concept of social cloud, resource definition, resource sharing and allocation mechanism, and its application and stakeholders. This study is an attempt to express a need for a general framework of the social cloud, which can incorporate various views and resource sharing setups discussed in the literature.

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关于社交云的批注

社交云的概念已成为一种社交网络环境中的资源共享范例。毫无疑问，最先进的社交云系统展示了社交云作为其他计算范例（如云，网格，对等和志愿者计算）的补充的潜力。但是，在本文中，我们对社交云文献进行了批判性调查，得出的结论是，这些最初的努力未能提供社交云的总体框架，也未能显示社交云的独特性。此简短说明显示，在社交云的概念，资源定义，资源共享和分配机制及其应用和利益相关者方面存在重大差异。这项研究旨在表达对社交云总体框架的需求，