creators_name: Catanese, Salvatore creators_name: De Meo, Pasquale creators_name: Ferrara, Emilio creators_name: Fiumara, Giacomo type: confpaper datestamp: 2011-10-01 00:34:10 lastmod: 2011-10-01 00:34:10 metadata_visibility: show title: Analyzing the Facebook Friendship Graph ispublished: pub subjects: comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys full_text_status: public note: ISSN: 1613-0073 abstract: 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 date_type: published volume: 685 pagerange: 14-19 refereed: TRUE citation: Catanese, Salvatore and De Meo, Pasquale and Ferrara, Emilio and Fiumara, Giacomo (2010) Analyzing the Facebook Friendship Graph. [Conference Paper] document_url: http://cogprints.org/7641/1/fb-rel-analysis-MIFI2010-fin.pdf