15. A computer program product for determining and displaying relationships in a social network, the computer program product comprising: one or more computer-readable storage devices and program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to identify, based on a list of types of identified terms that are searchable within a social networking application, 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; program instructions to visually distinguish the identified term in the displayed application window text areas; program instructions to transmit, for each identified term, the identified term to one or more servers executing a social networking application; program instructions to, for each identified term, receive from the one or more servers a list of people that correspond to the identified term; program instructions to direct a display device, for each identified term, to display the list of people that correspond to the identified term; program instructions to direct a display device to display a mapping clipboard program graphical user interface; program instructions to receive from the user a selection of a mapping clipboard from a plurality of mapping clipboards program instructions to add, for each identified term, in response to user input, an identification of a person from the list of people to the mapping clipboard; and program instructions to direct the display device to display a graph that indicates how the person and other people identified in the mapping clipboard are connected to each other in the social networking application, wherein a connection represents one of a friend, relative, colleague, present co-worker, former co-worker, or classmate.
15. A computer program product for determining and displaying relationships in a social network, the computer program product comprising: one or more computer-readable storage devices and program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to identify, based on a list of types of identified terms that are searchable within a social networking application, 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; program instructions to visually distinguish the identified term in the displayed application window text areas; program instructions to transmit, for each identified term, the identified term to one or more servers executing a social networking application; program instructions to, for each identified term, receive from the one or more servers a list of people that correspond to the identified term; program instructions to direct a display device, for each identified term, to display the list of people that correspond to the identified term; program instructions to direct a display device to display a mapping clipboard program graphical user interface; program instructions to receive from the user a selection of a mapping clipboard from a plurality of mapping clipboards program instructions to add, for each identified term, in response to user input, an identification of a person from the list of people to the mapping clipboard; and program instructions to direct the display device to display a graph that indicates how the person and other people identified in the mapping clipboard are connected to each other in the social networking application, wherein a connection represents one of a friend, relative, colleague, present co-worker, former co-worker, or classmate. 17. The computer program product of claim 15 further comprising program instructions to receive from the user a selection of the social networking application from a plurality of social networking applications.