Social Browsing on Flickr
Kristina Lerman, Laurie Jones

TL;DR
This paper analyzes how social browsing on Flickr, through contacts' photo streams, is a primary method for users discovering new images, highlighting its importance for personalized recommendations.
Contribution
It provides an extensive analysis demonstrating that social browsing via contacts is a key image discovery method on Flickr, informing recommendation system design.
Findings
Social browsing is a primary image discovery method.
Contacts' photo streams significantly influence user activity.
Implications for personalized recommendation systems.
Abstract
The new social media sites - blogs, wikis, del.icio.us and Flickr, among others - underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, evaluating and distributing information. The photo-sharing site Flickr, for example, allows users to upload photographs, view photos created by others, comment on those photos, etc. As is common to other social media sites, Flickr allows users to designate others as ``contacts'' and to track their activities in real time. The contacts (or friends) lists form the social network backbone of social media sites. We claim that these social networks facilitate new ways of interacting with information, e.g., through what we call social browsing. The contacts interface on Flickr enables users to see latest images submitted by their friends. Through an extensive analysis of Flickr data, we show that social…
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Taxonomy
TopicsRecommender Systems and Techniques · Advanced Graph Neural Networks · Expert finding and Q&A systems
