“Loosing” Facebook Friends
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daniele quercia
offline & online
social media language personality
social media
Emotions Talk of the City
Emotions Talk of the City
“Happy” (“sad”) users do cluster together
The Social World of Twitter [ICWSM’12]
YOU
YOUR FRIENDS
Emotions Talk of the City
social media environment sports health Royal wedding
Spanish/Portuguesecelebrity gossips
Talk of the City [ICWSM’12]
TweetLDA: Fast & Effective Topic Modeling
Goal: Predictors of Unfriending
Word of the Year 2010
Surveys
“the act of unfriending acknowledges that the definition of friend is different from the traditional”
Qualitative & Quantitative Studies
“the act of unfriending acknowledges that the definition of friend is different from the traditional”
Quantitative study of 4 predictors Personality Gender in social circles Age difference Common friends
Quantitative study of 4 predictors
Quantitative study of 4 predictors
> 34K Users 60% women median age 23 median #friends 123
Personality
WEIRD trap!Few hundreds of WEIRDos(White,Educated,Industrialized,Rich, and Democratic)
5.5M, reliable, n
o WEIRDos
David Stillwell & Michal Kosinski
Based on the two’s friend lists: We know which ties are broken NOT who “broke up” with whom
A Bmin(traitA, traitB)max(traitA, traitB)avg(traitA, traitB)
For each of the five traits:
For min, max, and avg, results are consistent: Only Extraversion (-) & Neuroticism (+) (t-test, p<0.001)
Gender in triads
ANY
M
Fraction of broken ties
ANY
ANY
F
ANY
ANY
M
Fraction of broken ties
ANY
ANY
F
ANY
54%
34%
Age difference
Not linear but… R2= 44%
Common friends
R2= 72%
A tie is likely to disappear between two who:
Are neurotic or introvert Have no common female friends Have large age difference Are not embedded in the same social circles
A tie is likely to disappear between two who:
Are neurotic or introvert Have no common female friends Have large age difference Are not embedded in the same social circles
A tie is likely to disappear between two who:
Are neurotic or introvert Have no common female friends Have large age difference Are not embedded in the same social circles
practical implications
news ranking
real networks have been virtualized
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