Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

2014 Edition
| Editors: Reda Alhajj, Jon Rokne

New Intermediaries of Personal Information: The FB Ecosystem

  • Lothar Krempel
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_333
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Synonyms

Digital social network; Graph; Network mining; Personal information; Property rights; Two-mode graph

Glossary

Social Graph

The global mapping of everybody and how they are related

Interest Graph

Who is linked to which interest in the network of people who share interest with the user, but whom the user does not necessarily know personally

FB Social Graph

Complex data structure which describes how people, photos, events, pages, etc. are linked and how people and virtual nonhuman objects are linked

Edge Rank

A weight for pages and news which determines whether these are shown in the personal FB User Stream

API

Applications Programming Interface

Introduction

Facebook is currently the latest most successful virtual social platform in the Internet with almost a billion users in over 180 countries worldwide. The sheer size of this digital social network dwarfs any social platform that has existed so far. Advances of the software technology (graph databases) allow Facebook to deliver...

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Lothar Krempel
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  1. 1.Max Planck Institute for the Study of SocietiesCologneGermany