Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications 2010
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7142-5_17
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Decentralized Online Social Networks

Abstract: Abstract. Current Online social networks (OSN) are web services run on logically centralized infrastructure. Large OSN sites use content distribution networks and thus distribute some of the load by caching for performance reasons, nevertheless there is a central repository for user and application data. This centralized nature of OSNs has several drawbacks including scalability, privacy, dependence on a provider, need for being online for every transaction, and a lack of locality. There have thus been several… Show more

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“…An Online Social Network (OSN) is defined as web platform in which a person can create a profile, connect to other people, view and traverse network of connections within the system, share resources and information within the system, and use social applications with which people within the system can interact and collaborate with each other [5], [9]. With the growth of internet usage, OSNs first came into existence in the form of SixDegree.com (in 1997) which had basic OSN features [5].…”
Section: Online Social Networkmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…An Online Social Network (OSN) is defined as web platform in which a person can create a profile, connect to other people, view and traverse network of connections within the system, share resources and information within the system, and use social applications with which people within the system can interact and collaborate with each other [5], [9]. With the growth of internet usage, OSNs first came into existence in the form of SixDegree.com (in 1997) which had basic OSN features [5].…”
Section: Online Social Networkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…and sometimes as collaborative sharing networks (such as Skype), but have not been used as a medium for online social networking. The inherent nature of peer-to-peer connection between users in a social network makes OSN suitable for peer-to-peer architecture [9]. In file sharing P2P systems like Gnutella, most of the users are free riders [1].…”
Section: Decentralizing Online Social Networkmentioning
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“…While some SNSs such as Facebook, VK, Twitter are focused on selfpresentation, others such as LinkedIn and ResearchGate are focused on self-promotion [2]. There are also less common variations of SNSs known as decentralised SNSs [3] [4]. Their characteristic is the qualitative difference in the audience [5]: users of professional social networking sites (PSNS) are mostly middle-aged people who are interested in building a network of professional relations.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The main objectives behind decentralization are to preserve users privacy in both shared content and communication, and also to provide complete freedom from any form of censorship or profiling. DOSNs operate as distributed information management platforms on top of networks of trusted servers or P2P infrastructures [Datta et al, 2010]. Thus, DOSNs provide a privacy preserving alternative to current OSNs, where users have full control of their data.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%