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FIRSTMONDAY
2011
13 years 2 months ago
2011
There has been extensive research into friend-oriented and professional social networking websites, but relatively little work on passion-oriented sites designed to connect strang...
ICWSM
2010
2010
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
13 years 9 months ago
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 8 months ago
2009
This study suggests reasons for the absence of a growing proportion of the population, the so-called baby boomers, from the otherwise highly popular social networking sites. We ex...
HICSS
2010
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
The ability to retain and lock members in competitive situations is an important concern of online social network sites. In this study, we proposed a research model to investigate...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
