Relationships in Social Networks

i wonder why we spend a lot of time just wandering here and there in online social network sites. i do it though i hate it. This made me to think about do some search on social networks.. still searching on a topic.

i did a small research on relationship named "Link Prediction in Social Networks by Social Distance". The abstract of the paper is as follows,

In the last decade the, Social Networks has been studied extensively in the context of analyzing relationships, interaction between people and determining the interesting structural properties of the network. The studies are mainly focused on online Social Network application such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace. The Social Network data in the internet and Application Programming Interfaces (API) enable research on Social Networks. The identification of people who has more probability to be connected, and introduce them to each other enables the network tightly connected and expand the network further. This research is focused on identify the social distance and communities of members in a social network by analyzing structural variable and social variables in to account.


find the full paper here