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DBSEC
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Detecting Spam Bots in Online Social Networking Sites: A Machine Learning Approach
As online social networking sites become more and more popular, they have also attracted the attentions of the spammers. In this paper, Twitter, a popular micro-blogging service, i...
Alex Hai Wang
GROUP
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Judging you by the company you keep: dating on social networking sites
This study examines dating strategies in Social Networking Sites (SNS) and the features that help participants achieve their dating goals. Qualitative data suggests the SNS featur...
Adeline Y. Lee, Amy Bruckman
WPES
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Information revelation and privacy in online social networks
Participation in social networking sites has dramatically increased in recent years. Services such as Friendster, Tribe, or the Facebook allow millions of individuals to create on...
Ralph Gross, Alessandro Acquisti, H. John Heinz II...
HICSS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Digital Relationships in the "MySpace" Generation: Results From a Qualitative Study
A qualitative study was conducted to explore how subjects use social networking sites and instant messenger to engage in interpersonal relationships. The results were used to deve...
Catherine Dwyer
SEMCO
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Applications of Voting Theory to Information Mashups
Blogs, discussion forums and social networking sites are an excellent source for people’s opinions on a wide range of topics. We examine the application of voting theory to “I...
Alfredo Alba, Varun Bhagwan, Julia Grace, Daniel G...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Understanding Development and Usage of Social Networking Sites: The Social Software Performance Model
Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook thrive on energetic social interaction, but the factors that assure this are not well understood. There is a lack of theory th...
Catherine Dwyer, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, George Widme...
CANS
2009
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Privacy-Preserving Relationship Path Discovery in Social Networks
As social networks sites continue to proliferate and are being used for an increasing variety of purposes, the privacy risks raised by the full access of social networking sites ov...
Ghita Mezzour, Adrian Perrig, Virgil D. Gligor, Pa...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Towards Automating Social Engineering Using Social Networking Sites
—A growing number of people use social networking sites to foster social relationships among each other. While the advantages of the provided services are obvious, drawbacks on a...
Markus Huber, Stewart Kowalski, Marcus Nohlberg, S...
CCS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Inferring privacy policies for social networking services
Social networking sites have come under criticism for their poor privacy protection track record. Yet, there is an inherent difficulty in deciding which principals should have acc...
George Danezis
HICSS
2009
IEEE
195views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Cyber Migration: An Empirical Investigation on Factors that Affect Users' Switch Intentions in Social Networking Sites
In recent years, Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have increasingly gained popularity. With the existence of hundreds of such sites, it is not uncommon to have users switching betwe...
Zengyan Cheng, Yinping Yang, John Lim