An established social link between two or more individuals, evidenced by mutual follows, friendships, group memberships, co-appearances in content, or communication patterns. Mapping connections is central to social graph analysis in SOCMINT.
### Related weaknesses
- [[SOWEL-2. Producing Social Graph]]
- [[SOWEL-5. Exposing the Fact of Activity]]
### Related techniques
- [[SOTL-2.7. Study Nth-Level Connections]]
- [[SOTL-5.3. Detect Close Relations by Interactions]]
- [[SOTL-10.1. Reveal Communications With Online Status]]