Social Browsing & Information Filtering in Social Media
(2007)Zusammenfassung
Social networks are a prominent feature of many social media sites,
a new generation of Web sites that allow users to create and share
content. Sites such as Digg, Flickr, and Del.icio.us allow users
to designate others as "friends" or "contacts" and provide a single-click
interface to track friends' activity. How are these social networks
used? Unlike pure social networking sites (e.g., LinkedIn and Facebook),
which allow users to articulate their online professional and personal
relationships, social media sites are not, for the most part, aimed
at helping users create or foster online relationships. Instead,
we claim that social media users create social networks to express
their tastes and interests, and use them to filter the vast stream
of new submissions to find interesting content. Social networks,
in fact, facilitate new ways of interacting with information: what
we call social browsing. Through an extensive analysis of data from
Digg and Flickr, we show that social browsing is one of the primary
usage modalities on these social media sites. This finding has implications
for how social media sites rate and personalize content.
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