How many new Facebook friendships per month? Year? Has anyone got data on this?
Hi all, I really need to know how many new Facebook friendships people make per week, month, year, or whatever unit of time data are available for. I imagine that new users make lots all at once, and that then it flattens out, but I’ve got no idea on average how many new Facebook ties are made by people every month or whatever. Does anyone know? Has anyone seen data on this anywhere? Thanks in advance, Nik Nicholas John Department of Communication The Hebrew University of Jerusalem T +972 54 7906073 @nicholasajohn <http://www.twitter.com/nicholasajohn> nicholasjohn.huji.ac.il <http://nicholasjohn.huji.ac.il/> Check out my new book,The Age of Sharing, at Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/Age-Sharing-Nicholas-John/dp/074566251X> or directly from Polity <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745662503> Listen to a podcast <http://newbooksnetwork.com/nicholas-a-john-the-age-of-sharing-polity-press-2016/> on the New Books Network. Read an excerpt <http://culturedigitally.org/2016/11/the-age-of-sharing-by-nicholas-john-an-excerpt/>and responses <http://culturedigitally.org/2016/12/dialogue_nikjohn/>at Culture Digitally.
Hi Nik, I’m not aware of any data regarding Facebook on that. I’m pretty sure too that this will only be available from and for researchers working for or closely with Facebook (so I would look for resources from Facebook that might allow you to infer approximate numbers). Also, I would not necessarily expect that there is a typical evolution over time as social circles will increase suddenly with major life events (new partner, moving town, switching jobs, etc.). So it will be hard to put a number on it. In the beginning though it should exhibit something like a logistic growth curve. I don’t know whether this helps but here are some references that are at least tangential to your question: * This is one of the most comprehensive large-scale analyses I’ve seen so far on Facebook. Unfortunately though, it’s already 6 years old and much has changed during that time. Maybe try to hunt down more recent publications by the authors: * Ugander, J., Karrer, B., Backstrom, L., & Marlow, C. (2011). The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph, 1–17. http://doi.org/10.1.1.31.1768 * This one is not about Facebook, but investigates the growth of the ego-networks of new Twitter users over time and bears some interesting hypotheses about how it becomes a social network after starting out more as an informational one (in line with my statement above, the guys having done this research have been affiliated with Twitter at the time of the study): * Myers, S. A., Sharma, A., Gupta, P., & Lin, J. (2014). Information network or social network? The structure of the Twitter follow graph. WWW’14 Companion, 493–498. http://doi.org/10.1145/2567948.2576939 Hope that helps. Cheers, Felix Social Media: https://about.me/flxvctr Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=yn1Rz_EAAAAJ Academia.edu: https://qut.academia.edu/FlxVctr ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8808-6790 QUT: http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/muench/ On 22 June 2017 at 7:04:01 pm, Nicholas John (n.john@huji.ac.il<mailto:n.john@huji.ac.il>) wrote: Hi all, I really need to know how many new Facebook friendships people make per week, month, year, or whatever unit of time data are available for. I imagine that new users make lots all at once, and that then it flattens out, but I’ve got no idea on average how many new Facebook ties are made by people every month or whatever. Does anyone know? Has anyone seen data on this anywhere? Thanks in advance, Nik Nicholas John Department of Communication The Hebrew University of Jerusalem T +972 54 7906073 @nicholasajohn <http://www.twitter.com/nicholasajohn> nicholasjohn.huji.ac.il <http://nicholasjohn.huji.ac.il/> Check out my new book,The Age of Sharing, at Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/Age-Sharing-Nicholas-John/dp/074566251X> or directly from Polity <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745662503> Listen to a podcast <http://newbooksnetwork.com/nicholas-a-john-the-age-of-sharing-polity-press-2016/> on the New Books Network. Read an excerpt <http://culturedigitally.org/2016/11/the-age-of-sharing-by-nicholas-john-an-excerpt/>and responses <http://culturedigitally.org/2016/12/dialogue_nikjohn/>at Culture Digitally. _______________________________________________ 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/
Pew Internet <http://www.pewinternet.org/2011/06/16/part-3-social-networking-site-users-have-more-friends-and-more-close-friends/> has some data on this but I would imagine that without some contextual parameters that just "Facebook" users is too broad. I'd also try looking by demographic characteristics, or other limiters. Good luck, Lauri _________________________________________ Lauri Goldkind, PhD ~ Visiting Research Fellow ~ UN University Computers + Society Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham http://www.laurigoldkind.net/ The future is always beginning now. Strand, M. 1934 - 2014 ☆.。.:*・°☆ Less bitter more glitter ☆.。.:*・°☆ On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Nicholas John <n.john@huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi all, I really need to know how many new Facebook friendships people make per week, month, year, or whatever unit of time data are available for. I imagine that new users make lots all at once, and that then it flattens out, but I’ve got no idea on average how many new Facebook ties are made by people every month or whatever. Does anyone know? Has anyone seen data on this anywhere? Thanks in advance, Nik
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An interesting metric might be the rejection rate, How it changes as friend cume grows. I'm at 1588 and I reject probably 9 of 10. But I moderate a couple of groups so I get a lot of butt kissers etc, Another aspect obviously would be culls. I imagine there was a lot of culling going on around last November. j
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Nicholas John <n.john@huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi all, I really need to know how many new Facebook friendships people make per week, month, year, or whatever unit of time data are available for. I imagine that new users make lots all at once, and that then it flattens out, but I’ve got no idea on average how many new Facebook ties are made by people every month or whatever. Does anyone know? Has anyone seen data on this anywhere? Thanks in advance, Nik
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