Qualities and Inequalities in Online Social Networks through the Lens of the Generalized Friendship Paradox.

ABSTRACT: The friendship paradox is the phenomenon that in social networks, people on average have fewer friends than their friends do. The generalized friendship paradox is an extension to attributes other than the number of friends. The friendship paradox and its generalized version have gathered recent attention due to the information they provide about network structure and local inequalities. In this paper, we propose several measures of nodal qualities which capture different aspects of their activities and influence in online social networks. Using these measures we analyse the prevalence of the generalized friendship paradox over Twitter and we report high levels of prevalence (up to over 90% of nodes). We contend that this prevalence of the friendship paradox and its generalized version ari

SUBMITTER: Momeni N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4749216 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature