Toward Understanding Friendship in Online Social Networks
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Toward Understanding Friendship in Online Social Networks
All major on-line social networks, such as MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Orkut, are built around the concept of friendship. It is not uncommon for a social network participant to have over 100 friends. A natural question arises: are they all real friends of hers, or does she mean something different when she calls them “friends?” Speaking in other words, what is the relationship between o...
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عنوان ژورنال: The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1832-3669
DOI: 10.18848/1832-3669/cgp/v05i02/55977