Chun et al., "Comparison of online social relations in volume vs. interaction" (2008)
2026-08-14
Hyunwoo Chun, Haewoon Kwak, Young-Ho Eom, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Sue Moon, and Hawoong Jeong, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 57–70 (2008)
DOI | PDF
@inproceedings{chun2008cyworld,
author = {Hyunwoo Chun and Haewoon Kwak and Young-Ho Eom and Yong-Yeol Ahn and Sue Moon and Hawoong Jeong},
title = {Comparison of online social relations in terms of volume vs. interaction: a case study of Cyworld},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference},
pages = {57--70},
doi = {10.1145/1452520.1452528},
year = {2008},
}
Compares declared friendship with observed interaction in Cyworld, showing that a tie in an Online social network does not necessarily imply active communication—a question of Tie strength.