Leveraging Social Interactions to Suggest Friends

• Over the past decade Online Social Networks (OSNs) have made it possible for people to stay in touch with people they already know in real life; although, they have not been able to allow users to grow their personal social network. Existence of many successful dating and friend finder applications online today show the need and importance of such applications. In this paper, we describe an application that leverages social interactions in order to suggest people to users that they may find interesting. We allow users to expand their personal social network using their own interactions with other users on public pages and groups in OSNs. We finally evaluate our application by selecting a random set of users and asking them for their honest opinion.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

social networking (online)

OSN

dating applications

friend finder applications

friend suggestion

online social networks

personal social network

social interactions

Communities

Context

Electronic mail

Facebook

Privacy

Silicon compounds

Social Networks

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kon (subject category)