Facebook: Data Collection has become easier

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Facebook isthelargestonlinesocialntework FounderMarkZuckerberg startedFacebook in2004 Allowuserstoregister&createapersonalprofile Organizeworkplace,school,college,friendsintolists Communicatewithfriendsandotherusersthrough publicandprivatemessagesandachatfeature

Total no.ofFacebookusers Total2013Facebookrevenue

1.26billion

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Totalnumberofmonthlyactive Facebookusers IncreaseinFacebookusersfrom 2012to2013 Totalnumberofminutesspent onFacebookeachmonth

1.19 billion 22% 0.64billion

AveragetimespentonFacebook 18minutes pervisit Coverpicture(customizableappearance) Timelinefeaturingusersstorywithmilestonesandevents Aboutusersprofile(workhistory,education,hometown) Visualaggregationofnumeroussourcesofcontent

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Profilecreation Features Voicecalling

Chatting Videocalling

Privacysetting Following

Sharingphotos Postcomments

DataCollection
Usersdataaccumulated Digitalmapofreallife connectionsand interactionsamongusers Facebookstoresmore than100petabytes of userdata Facebooks API Enablesthirdparty developerstoconnectto Facebooks databaseand accessthesocialgraphto readand/orwritenew data

Thesocial graph

Theopen graph

Relevancycoefficient calculatoroncontent sharedonFacebook platform Identifiesifaparticular contentwillbedisplayed ornotinthenewsfeed

Personalinformation aggregationtechniques: Connections Instantpersonalization

TheEdgerank

DataMining

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Reliable Online Social Network Data Collection

ByFehmi BenAbdesslem,IainParris,andTristanHenderson

ThepaperexamineswhethertheFacebookdatacollectionisreliableornotandhow datacollectionthroughFacebookcanbeenhanced

Datacollectionmethods
PassiveDataCollection PrivateContentCollection SelfReportedDataCollection RealSocialInteraction

Purpose
Describeobjectiveandmore accurateinformation Provideinformationoncontent sharing Morereliableinformationthan passiveinformation Usersbehaviourdependsonsocial observation

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Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com
KevinLewisetal.(HarvardUniversity)

Inthersthalfofthispaper,anewpublicdatasetbasedonmanipulationsand embellishmentsofapopularsocialnetworksite,Facebook.com,isintroduced.Inthe secondhalfofthispaper,descriptivendingsfromrstwaveofdataisrepresented. Basicdescriptivendingsfromrstwaveofdata.Thesendingsexemplifythe typesofquestionsthatcanbeaddressedwiththisdataset,andprovideapoint ofdepartureforfuturedataresearch. .Naturalresearchinstrument Completenetworkdata Longitudinaldata Dataonmultiplesocialrelationships Open,evolvingSNSsreperesentremarkablenewopportunities.Facebook providesuserswithtemplatesthat,whileintendedforrecreationalpurposesare ideallysuitedfordatacollectionandanalysis.

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Social Media and Traditional Research Methodologies: Stronger Together than Apart BySDL Thepaperdiscussesaboutfillingtheresearchgapsoftraditionalresearch methodologieswiththehelpofsocialmediaresearch

BenefitsofSocialMediaover TraditionalResearchMethods
ShorterLeadtime Economical UnbiasedOpinion Comprehensive

DrawbacksofSocialMediaover TraditionalResearchMethods
Notallconsumerscovered Difficulttoidentifyrespondent NoNDA Dataauthenticityissues

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PryingDataoutofasocialnetwork
By:JosephBonneau,JonathanAnderson Thewhitepaperdiscusseschallengesfacedbysocialnetworkin preventingadversariesfromcollectinghugeamountsofuser datafromtheirsiteandmethodsusetodothat Protectionagainstdatacrawlinghasnotkeptpaceas Facebooketc.evolveintoglobalnetworks Personaldataandsocialgraphdatacanbeextractedfrom socialnetworks,regardlessofausersprivacysettings Verylessaccountsneededtoviewmajorityofthenetwork Lackofuserunderstandingofthelimitedamountofprivacy whichcanactuallybeenforcedbytodayssites Socialnetworksshouldlimitthenumberofmechanismsto accessuserdata,combatphishingaggressively,reduce relianceonsubnetworkmembershipforaccesscontrol,and eliminatefriendoffrienddatasharing ThoughFacebookitselfcollectsuserinformationandhaseven partneredwithDatalogix forthat,itisnotabletoprevent externalAPIsfromcollectingitsusersdata

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