理解在线社交网络中的友谊
Toward Understanding Friendship in Online Social Networks
摘要：
所有主要的在线社交网络，如MySpace、Facebook、LiveJournal和Orkut，都是围绕友谊的概念建立的。社交网络参与者拥有超过100个好友并不罕见。一个自然的问题出现了：他们都是她真正的朋友吗？或者当她称他们为“朋友”时，她的意思是不同的？“换句话说，离线（真实的，传统的）友谊和在线（虚拟的）同名友谊之间的关系是什么？在本文中，我们使用社会学数据表明，虚拟和真实的友谊的概念之间存在显着差异。我们进一步研究了在线友谊的结构，并观察到它遵循帕累托（或双帕累托）分布，并受到年龄分层，但不受性别隔离。我们引入了数字人格的概念，量化了社交网络参与者参与虚拟友谊的意愿。
英文摘要：
All major on-line social networks, such as MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Orkut, are built around the concept of friendship. It is not uncommon for a social network participant to have over 100 friends. A natural question arises: are they all real friends of hers, or does she mean something different when she calls them "friends?" Speaking in other words, what is the relationship between off-line (real, traditional) friendship and its on-line (virtual) namesake? In this paper, we use sociological data to suggest that there is a significant difference between the concepts of virtual and real friendships. We further investigate the structure of on-line friendship and observe that it follows the Pareto (or double Pareto) distribution and is subject to age stratification but not to gender segregation. We introduce the concept of digital personality that quantifies the willingness of a social network participant to engage in virtual friendships.
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