title: Analyzing the Facebook Friendship Graph creator: Catanese, Salvatore creator: De Meo, Pasquale creator: Ferrara, Emilio creator: Fiumara, Giacomo subject: Dynamical Systems description: Online Social Networks (OSN) during last years acquired a huge and increasing popularity as one of the most important emerging Web phenomena, deeply modifying the behavior of users and contributing to build a solid substrate of connections and relationships among people using the Web. In this preliminary work paper, our purpose is to analyze Facebook, considering a signi�cant sample of data re ecting relationships among subscribed users. Our goal is to extract, from this platform, relevant information about the distribution of these relations and exploit tools and algorithms provided by the Social Network Analysis (SNA) to discover and, possibly, understand underlying similarities between the developing of OSN and real-life social networks. date: 2010 type: Conference Paper type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/7641/1/fb-rel-analysis-MIFI2010-fin.pdf identifier: Catanese, Salvatore and De Meo, Pasquale and Ferrara, Emilio and Fiumara, Giacomo (2010) Analyzing the Facebook Friendship Graph. [Conference Paper] relation: http://cogprints.org/7641/