Characterization of user networks in Facebook

  • Authors:
  • Fatemeh Pakzad;Abdolreza Abhari

  • Affiliations:
  • Ryerson University, Toronto, CA;Ryerson University, Toronto, CA

  • Venue:
  • SpringSim '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Network service providers have been faced with some technical challenges that are presented by Facebook and other online social networking technologies. Therefore, it is better to know more about characteristics of these networks. There are several interesting topics worthy of conducting research in Facebook. One of the research directions is analyzing user networks in Facebook. The other research direction is analyzing fan networks of Facebook web pages. We have pursued both research directions in this paper. In this paper, we observed that the user network degree distribution in Facebook follows a lognormal distribution. This paper also presents that the distribution of increase in the number of fans of the web pages follows the Weilbull distribution.