This demo presents some features of our platform What's up for P2P social networking. The main idea of What's Up is to provide spontaneous social networks in the events s...
—It’s not just what you say, but it is how you say it. To date, the majority of the Instant Message (IM) analysis and research has focused on the content of the conversation.Th...
This study examines dating strategies in Social Networking Sites (SNS) and the features that help participants achieve their dating goals. Qualitative data suggests the SNS featur...
In this paper we describe the development of a platform that enables us to systematically study online social networks alongside their real-world counterparts. Our system, entitle...
This paper presents ethnographic fieldwork on Friendster, an online dating site utilizing social networks to encourage friend-of-friend connections. I discuss how Friendster appli...