On Facebook, most ties are weak

2012/03/31 by Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara +1 · 137 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Family ties #Interpersonal ties #Strong ties #Web visibility and informetrics #Wikis in Education and Collaboration #Work (physics) #cs.CY #cs.SI #physics.soc-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/2629438

published in Communications of the ACM 57(11), 78-84 (Association for Computing Machinery) · Accepted version of the manuscript before ACM editorial work. Check http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/11/179820-on-facebook-most-ties-are-weak/ for the final version

openalex publication_date 2014/10/27 · arxiv created 2014/11/01 · arxiv updated 2014/11/04 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Strong ties connect individuals in the same community; weak ties connect individuals in different communities.

Citations

• The dynamics of viral marketing
• The Strength of Weak Ties
• Community detection in graphs
• Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
• Crawling Facebook for social network analysis purposes
• Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure

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