Synonyms
Digital social network; Graph; Network mining; Personal information; Property rights; Two-mode graph
Glossary
- Social Graph :
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The global mapping of everybody and how they are related
- Interest Graph :
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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 :
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Complex data structure which describes how people, photos, events, pages, etc. are linked and how people and virtual nonhuman objects are linked
- Edge Rank :
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A weight for pages and news which determines whether these are shown in the personal FB User Stream
- API :
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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...
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Krempel, L. (2014). New Intermediaries of Personal Information: The FB Ecosystem. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_333
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