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]]