Risks of Friendships on Social Networks

TL;DR

This paper investigates how friendship patterns on social networks influence risks, using real data and a risk model to analyze users' attitudes towards friends of friends, revealing new insights into social risk dynamics.

Contribution

It introduces a novel analysis of friendship risks based on users' attitudes towards friends of friends, enhancing understanding of social network risk factors.

Findings

Risks can be inferred from users' attitudes towards friends of friends.

Friendship patterns significantly impact social network risks.

New insights into friendship and risk dynamics are provided.

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the risks of friends in social networks caused by their friendship patterns, by using real life social network data and starting from a previously defined risk model. Particularly, we observe that risks of friendships can be mined by analyzing users' attitude towards friends of friends. This allows us to give new insights into friendship and risk dynamics on social networks.