loosing "friends" on facebook
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Why people unfriend each other on FacebookTRANSCRIPT
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“Loosing” Facebook Friends
@danielequercia
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<who am i>
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daniele quercia
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offline & online
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social media language personality
social media
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Emotions Talk of the City
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Emotions Talk of the City
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“Happy” (“sad”) users do cluster together
The Social World of Twitter [ICWSM’12]
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YOU
YOUR FRIENDS
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Emotions Talk of the City
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social media environment sports health Royal wedding
Spanish/Portuguesecelebrity gossips
Talk of the City [ICWSM’12]
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TweetLDA: Fast & Effective Topic Modeling
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Goal: Predictors of Unfriending
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Word of the Year 2010
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Surveys
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“the act of unfriending acknowledges that the definition of friend is different from the traditional”
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Qualitative & Quantitative Studies
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“the act of unfriending acknowledges that the definition of friend is different from the traditional”
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Quantitative study of 4 predictors Personality Gender in social circles Age difference Common friends
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Quantitative study of 4 predictors
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Quantitative study of 4 predictors
> 34K Users 60% women median age 23 median #friends 123
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Personality
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WEIRD trap!Few hundreds of WEIRDos(White,Educated,Industrialized,Rich, and Democratic)
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5.5M, reliable, n
o WEIRDos
David Stillwell & Michal Kosinski
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Based on the two’s friend lists: We know which ties are broken NOT who “broke up” with whom
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A Bmin(traitA, traitB)max(traitA, traitB)avg(traitA, traitB)
For each of the five traits:
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For min, max, and avg, results are consistent: Only Extraversion (-) & Neuroticism (+) (t-test, p<0.001)
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Gender in triads
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ANY
M
Fraction of broken ties
ANY
ANY
F
ANY
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ANY
M
Fraction of broken ties
ANY
ANY
F
ANY
54%
34%
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Age difference
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Not linear but… R2= 44%
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Common friends
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R2= 72%
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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
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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
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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
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practical implications
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news ranking
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real networks have been virtualized
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