Abstract

Online Social Networks (OSN) during last years acquired a huge and increasing popularity as one of the most important emerging Web phenomena, deeply modifying the behavior of users and contributing to build a solid substrate of connections and relationships among people using the Web. In this preliminary work paper, our purpose is to analyze Facebook, considering a significant sample of data reflecting relationships among subscribed users. Our goal is to extract, from this platform, relevant information about the distribution of these relations and exploit tools and algorithms provided by the Social Network Analysis (SNA) to discover and, possibly, understand underlying similarities between the developing of OSN and real-life social networks.

Date

September 27, 2025

Authors

Salvatore Catanese, Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara

Journal

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mining the Future Internet

Volume

685

Pages

14-19

Publisher

Ceur.ws