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Characterization of users ofOnline Social Networks
Debesh Majumdar2nd Year StudentVGSOM, IIT Kharagpur April 29, 2011
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Project Approach
Literature review from major journals Secondary sources of data Primary data source Observations
References
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Why OSN?
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Characteristics of OSNs
User basedo Built and directed by users themselveso Users populate the network with content and conversationso Direction of content is determined by anyone who takes part in
the discussiono Unpredictability of direction makes it dynamic and exciting
Interactiveo Presence of network based gaming applications alongside forumsand chatrooms
o These applications allow users to connect with other users andhave fun
Community-driveno Users having common beliefs or interests create communitieso New connections between users are formed based on these
commonalities
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Characteristics of OSNs
Relationshipso Number of connections of users determine the user's distance
from the centre of the networko Content published by a user proliferates exponentially as the
number of contacts increases
Emotion over contento
OSNs provide an easy way to reach out to a large number offriendso Certain sense of emotional security as friends are within easy
reacho Ability to communicate inner feelings with friends provides a
great deal of support
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Classification of users
Singletonso Degree-zero nodes who have joined the service but have never
made a connection with another usero Do not actively participate in the network
Giant componentso Represent the large group of people who are connected to one
another through paths in the networko Typically connected directly or indirectly to a large fraction of the
entire networko Contains most of the highly active and gregarious individuals
Middle regiono Consists of various isolated communitieso Small groups who interact with one another but not with the
network at largeo Represents a significant fraction of the entire population
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Insights into evolution of OSNs
Likelihood that two isolated communities will merge together
is low Almost all isolated communities are stars
o A star is a single charismatic individual linked to a varyingnumber of other users who have very few otherconnections
Evolution of stars characterized by two processeso Isolated communities grow one user at a timeo Either merge into the giant component or cease to exist
when the star loses focus Merging stars represent the outer layer of a giant component
A group of tightly-connected active members form the coreof a giant component
The average distance between users in a giant componentfalls over time
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User Content Generation
User posting behaviour of original content shows strong
daily and weekly patterns while non-original content postingdo not exhibit any temporal pattern
Users can be classified into three groups according to theirposting behaviour - steadily posting, occasionally postingand inactively posting
20% users contribute to 80% of the total content in thenetwork
User contribution for original content characterized bystretched exponential model with different parameters. Forexample, for high-quality content the distribution has a low
stretch factor indicating that it is generated by a small coregroup
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OSN use and personality
OSN use can provide a lot of data about the personality of
an individual Extrovert individuals have a significantly higher number of
connections than introvert individuals Extrovert individuals demonstrate a lower use of personal
information
Highly neurotic individuals prefer to post more photos People with low and high levels of agreeableness are
inclined to upload more pictures than people with amoderate level of agreeableness
Individuals having high degree of openness to experience
use more features from the personal information section Conscientious individuals have a higher number of friends
but make less use of the picture upload feature
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What do users ask their social network?
Question type Question topic
Recommendation Technology
Opinion Entertainment
Factual knowledge Home & family
Rhetorical Professional
Invitation Places
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Motivation for Q&A in OSN
Questions Answers
Trust Altruism
Subjectivity of question Expertise
Belief that search engines would notwork
Properties of question
Specific audience Nature of relationship
Connect socially Connect socially
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Relationship Strength
Relationship strength is modelled on the basis of the theoryof homophily which postulateso People tend to form ties with other people who have
similar characteristicso Stronger the ties, higher the similarities
Elements used to measure relationship strengtho School and university attendedo Companies worked foro Geographical location
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Revenue Models of OSNs
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Lengthen the tail
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Fatten the tail
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Drive demand down the tail
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Disclosures
Personal information can be classified intoo Default/standardo Sensitiveo Potentially stigmatizing
Approximately 25% of all possible information that couldpotentially be disclosed by individuals are disclosed
Disclosure of personal information such as gender and ageis related to disclosure of other sensitive and highly personalinformation
Younger people have more personal information on theirprofiles
Users seeking a relationship tend to disclose the greatestamount of highly sensitive information
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Privacy taxonomy
Purpose
Specification of legitimate reasons to access a specific piece ofinformation
Visibility Who is allowed to access provided data
Granularity Degree of precision that is revealed in response to a query for a
piece of data Retention
The time period during which access to data should be allowed
Registration Information required to identify data provider uniquely
Networking Information solicited by the social network to be released to its otherusers
Content Actual content with which the data provider participates in network
Activity
Web server logs, information from cookies, as well as other means
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Legends
Purpose Visibility Granularity
RSm=Reuse Same H=House S=Specific
RS=Reuse selected F=Friends P=Partial
RA=Reuse Any FoF=Friends of friends
A=Any N=Network
A/W=All/World
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Purpose
Purpose LinkedIn Twitter Orkut Facebook MySpace YouTube
Registration RA RA RSm RA RS RA
Networking A A A RAA A A
Content A A A RAA A A
Activity RS RS A RA A A
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Visibility
Visibility LinkedIn Twitter Orkut Facebook MySpace YouTube
Registration H H H H H H
Networking FAW FAW FN HN FAW AW
Content FAW FAW FN HN FAW AW
Activity H H H H H H
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Granularity
Visibility LinkedIn Twitter Orkut Facebook MySpace YouTube
Registration S S S S S S
Networking S,P S,P S S S S
Content S S,P S S S S
Activity P P S S S S
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Facebook Applications & Privacy
What information does Facebook share with applications?o Practically everything ...o Application Terms of Service
"Facebook may...provide developers access to...your name, your profilepicture, your gender, your birthday, your hometown location...your current
location...your political view, your activities, your interests...yourrelationship status, your dating interests, your relationship interests, yoursummer plans, your Facebook user network affiliations, your educationhistory, your work history,...copies of photos in your Facebook Site photoalbums...a list of user IDs mapped to your Facebook friends."
o If you set your profile to private and one of your friends adds an
application, most of your profile information that is visible to your friend isalso available to the application developer -- even if you yourself have notinstalled the application
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Information needs of Facebook apps
90.7% applications being given more privileges than theyneed
Source : http://www.cs.virginia.edu/felt/privacy/
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Facebook's changing privacy policies
2005"No personal information that you submit to the Facebook will be available to any user of the WebSite who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in your privacy settings."
Implications We are not giving your data to anyone who is not related to you in some way
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Facebook's changing privacy policies
2006"We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share onFacebook; that is why we give you control of your information. Our default privacy settings limit theinformation displayed in your profile to your school, your specified local area, and other reasonablecommunity limitations that we tell you about."
Implications
We will provide everyone will some of the details you add to your profile page.
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Facebook's changing privacy policies
2007"Profile information you submit to Facebook will be available to users of Facebook who belong to atleast one of the networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g.,school, geography, friends of friends). Your name, school name, and profile picture thumbnail will beavailable in search results across the Facebook network unless you alter your privacy settings."
Implications Apart from some of the profile information becoming public, we will allow people to search for
you and display those information
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Facebook's changing privacy policies
November 2009"Facebook is designed to make it easy for you to share your information with anyone you want. Youdecide how much information you feel comfortable sharing on Facebook and you control how it isdistributed through your privacy settings. You should review the default privacy settings and changethem if necessary to reflect your preferences. You should also consider your settings whenever youshare information. ...Information set to everyone is publicly available information, may be accessed by everyone on theInternet (including people not logged into Facebook), is subject to indexing by third party search
engines, may be associated with you outside of Facebook (such as when you visit other sites on theinternet), and may be imported and exported by us and others without privacy limitations. Thedefault privacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to everyone.You can review and change the default settings in your privacy settings."Implications Your profile data is no longer limited to Facebook users. It can be accessed by search engines
and others "without privacy limitations"
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Facebook's changing privacy policies
December 2009"Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages youare a fan of, gender, geographic region, and networks you belong to are considered publiclyavailable to everyone, including Facebook-enhanced applications, and therefore do not haveprivacy settings. You can, however, limit the ability of others to find this information through searchusing your search privacy settings."Implications Some of the information you provide is now public. There is no way you can have any setting to
make them private.
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Facebook's changing privacy policies
April 2010"When you connect with an application or website it will have access to General Information aboutyou. The term General Information includes your and your friends names, profile pictures, gender,user IDs, connections, and any content shared using the Everyone privacy setting. ... The defaultprivacy setting for certain types of information you post on Facebook is set to everyone. ...Because it takes two to connect, your privacy settings only control who can see the connection onyour profile page. If you are uncomfortable with the connection being publicly available, you shouldconsider removing (or not making) the connection."
Implications Any interaction you have with an application or an external website will help the application or
website to access to your and your friends' profile information.
F b k P i P li St t t
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Facebooks Privacy Policy Statement
Word count over the years
2005
1004
2006
2313
2007
3063
2009
5443
2010
5830
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Facebook's Privacy Policy Statement
Comparison with other OSNs
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Current Facebook privacy settings
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Categories of OSN applications
Category Description
Friend comparisonAllow users to declare best friends
and compare friend traits
Casual communicationAllow users to exchange messages
and write on each other's wall
Rating/RecommendationEnables users to review, compare
and recommend items
GesturesAllows users to perform virtual
gestures like poke and bite
Self expressionEnables users to express moods,
political opinion etc
Gifting Enables users to exchange gifts
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Average Age Distribution
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Age Distribution per site
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Average user per site
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Average user per site
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Observations
The average social network user is 37 years old LinkedIn has an average user age of 44 The average Twitter user is 39 years old The average Facebook user is 38 years old Most importantly, unlike popular perception, OSNs are
dominated by middle-aged people and not by the tech-savvyyounger generation
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Social Games Look whos playing
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Why are people playing?
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Disclosures on OSNs
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Who is spending the most time on OSN?
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Profile of virtual world users
Th H h i
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The Hypothesis
H0 : Classification based on number of years in Facebook andthe number of hours spent each week on Facebook areindependent
H1 : Classification based on number of years in Facebook andthe number of hours spent each week on Facebook are notindependent
Th H h i
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The Hypothesis
Number of hoursspent per week
Total Expected cellfrequencies per
null hypothesis
Less
than 5
hours
More
than 5
hours
Number
of years
More
than 1
year
11 42 53 15.55 37.45
Less
than 1
year
11 11 22 6.45 15.55
Total 22 53 75
Th T t
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The Tests
Chi
Square
X2
For
97.5%
6.41 5.02
Therefore we can say that number of years on FB andnumber of hours spent are not independent with a
confidence level of 97.5%
R f
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References
"Structure & evolution of Online Social Networks"
o Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, Andrew Tomkins "Social network use and personality"
o Yair Amichai-Hamburger, Gideon Vinitzky
"Modelling relationship strength in Online Social Networks"o Rongjing Xiang, Jennifer Neville, Monica Rogati
"All about me: Disclosure in Online Social Networking profile :
The case of Facebook"o Amanda Nosko, Eileen Wood, Seija Molema
"Analyzing patterns of user content generation in OnlineSocial Networks"o Lei Guo, Enhua Tan, Songqing Chen, Xiaodong Zhang, Yihong Zhao
The long tail of social networking sites Albrecht Enders, Harald Hungenberg, Hans-Peter Denker
What do people ask their social networks and why?o Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan, Katrina Panovich
Th k Y !
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Thank You!