1. A method for determining and displaying relationships in a social network, the method comprising the steps of: a computer identifying within content displayed to a user, one or more terms within displayed application window text areas of at least two different types of computer program applications; for each of the identified terms: the computer visually distinguishing the identified term in the displayed application window text areas; the computer transmitting the identified term to one or more servers executing a social networking application; the computer receiving from the one or more servers a list of people that correspond to the identified term; the computer directing a display device to display the list of people that correspond to the identified term; the computer directing a display device to display a mapping clipboard program graphical user interface; the computer receiving input from the user of an identification of a person from the list of people that correspond to the identified term; the computer receiving from the user a selection of a mapping clipboard from a plurality of mapping clipboards; the computer adding the identification of the person from the list of people to the mapping clipboard; and in response to user selection of one of the people in the list of people that correspond to the identified term, the computer directing the display device to display a graph that shows how the one person and other people identified in the list are connected to each other in the social networking application, wherein the connections represent a friend, relative, colleague, present co-worker, former co-worker, or classmate.