Living with robots and interactive companions involves sharing living spaces with robots ranging from domestic environments to work, healthcare and even massively destructed environments. But what about the cyberspace and the internet?

We are present within the cyberspace for considerable periods of time. This don't necessarily mean that we will lose contact with our intelligent companions. Existing in cyberspace embraces the existence of robots and other things online. Interactive companions are occasionally in cyberspace online to interact, chat and respond to their fellow humans.

Twitter is a showcase where many “Things” tweet and have followers. Trees, cats, roasters,and robots update their followers with their updates [1]. Nasa robot @AstroRobonaut posts its news and shares opinions with its friends. Human writers seem to be responding sometimes instead of the robot. They act as a ghost and interact within the robots social network. Socially communicating with this robot or any other robot offers significant insights about the way people react and / would like to communicate with a robot. Human expectations of their interactive robot friend are easily spotted through these types of social networks.

Facebook and Twitter are nowadays on top of social networking lists. People are drastically involved in their networking putting a lot of effort to keep active and attract new people to their network. The exponential growth of such networking activities are justifiable as it is very easy and convenient to share personal data, images, thoughts, info and news creating a rich exchange space. Talking about the simplicity and straightforwardness of this method in getting people to interact with robots through social networks while ghost writers take off the communication lead, Wizard of Oz methodology cannot help it but to keep popping. The similarity here between WOZ and the ghost writing on the robot's behalf, suggest that may be mating the two approaches could end up in a framework to assess proposed robotic systems with users on a large scale of the social network.

References: [1] http://www.sics.se/~majac/workshop2/position/HenrietteCramer.pdf