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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Large Online Social Footprints-An Emerging Threat
—We study large online social footprints by collecting data on 13,990 active users. After parsing data from 10 of the 15 most popular social networking sites, we find that a use...
Danesh Irani, Steve Webb, Kang Li, Calton Pu
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
To join or not to join: the illusion of privacy in social networks with mixed public and private user profiles
In order to address privacy concerns, many social media websites allow users to hide their personal profiles from the public. In this work, we show how an adversary can exploit an...
Elena Zheleva, Lise Getoor
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Groupthink and Peer Pressure: Social Influence in Online Social Network Groups
In this paper, we present a horizontal view of social influence, more specifically a quantitative study of the influence of neighbours on the probability of a particular node to jo...
Pan Hui, Sonja Buchegger
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Detecting synonyms in social tagging systems to improve content retrieval
Collaborative tagging used in online social content systems is naturally characterized by many synonyms, causing low precision retrieval. We propose a mechanism based on user pref...
Maarten Clements, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. ...
NETWORK
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Sizing up online social networks
While the size of popular Online Social Networks (OSNs) such as MySpace or Twitter has been reported to be in the tens or hundreds of millions of users (and growing), little is kn...
Reza Rejaie, Mojtaba Torkjazi, Masoud Valafar, Wal...