Report: Facebook Campus Networks Form Based On Housing, Graduation Year
When people connect to college friends on Facebook, networks tend to form around graduation year and university housing, rather than shared interests, finds a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study.
When people connect to college friends on Facebook, networks tend to form around graduation year and university housing, rather than shared interests, finds a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study.
Researchers studied the first colleges and universities to have students, faculty, or staff join Facebook in September 2005. As members joined, social networks formed.
Using community-detection techniques, researchers were able to identify groups within each network.
University networks that had groups largely formed around housing assignments tended to have smaller residence halls, or halls where students lived for multiple years.
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