Sorry this paper is relevant as well Ralph Gross & Alessandro Acquisti & H. John Heinz, III. Information revelation and privacy in online social networks in Workshop On Privacy In The Electronic Society Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society (New York, N.Y.: ACM, 2005) at 71-80. Peter Timusk at571@ncf.ca ptimusk@sympatico.ca web: www.crystalcomputing.net blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Peter Timusk Sent: September-26-10 11:51 PM To: 'Barry Wellman'; 'aoir list' Subject: Re: [Air-L] facebook evidence? I found it surprising that some ACM authors used facebook's own search features in their study. See these papers Cliff Lampe & Nicole Ellison & Charles Steinfield. A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing in Computer Supported Cooperative Work Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work (New York, N.Y.: ACM, 2006) at 167 - 170. .A familiar face(book): profile elements as signals in an online social network in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (New York, N.Y.: ACM, 2007) at 435 - 444. Peter Timusk at571@ncf.ca ptimusk@sympatico.ca web: www.crystalcomputing.net blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: September-26-10 6:29 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] facebook evidence? I've learned a lot from the Facebook discussion about how "matches" are made,* but mostly it has been deduction, conjecture and anecdote. *****Does anybody have any really reliable, verifiable evidence about how Facebook matches are actually made? *And reinforced my own reasons for not on FBook, altho I am on Twitter. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/