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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Cell phone software aiding name recall
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Age and web access: the next generation
Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)
Older adults' perceptions and experiences of online social support
Interacting with Computers
"A little silly and empty-headed": older adults' understandings of social networking sites
Proceedings of the 23rd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Celebrating People and Technology
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International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions
Third agers and social networking in higher education
OCSC'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Online communities and social computing
Influence of gender and English proficiency on Facebook mobile adoption
International Journal of Mobile Communications
Designing social networking sites for older adults
BCS '10 Proceedings of the 24th BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference
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This study presents an analysis of age-related differences of user behavior in the social network site MySpace.com. We focus on two age groups: older people (60+ years of age) and teenagers (between 13 and 19 years of age). We used locally developed web crawlers to collect large sets of data from MySpace's user profile pages. We used different analytic techniques to quantify any differences that exist in the networks of friends of older people and teenagers. Content analysis was applied to investigate age-related differences concerning the way users represent themselves on their profile pages. Our findings show that teenagers tend to have much larger networks of friends compared to older users. Also, we found that the majority of teenage users' friends are in their own age range (age +/- 2 years), whilst older people's friends tend to have a more diverse age distribution.