Social Psychology Testing Platform Leveraging Facebook and SNA Techniques

Analysis of Facebook Interaction as Basis for Synthetic Expanded Social Graph Generation

“…Analysis of social graphs can offer insight and better understanding of interpersonal relations. Sociologists and social psychologists use social graphs analysis to explain how other people influence our feelings, our thinking and our behavior [1], [42].…”

“…As previous research showed that OSNs may represent adequate emulations of the social lives of their users [1]- [3], social graphs gathered from OSN are a very valuable research resource. Binary social graphs however have little use when it comes to analyzing real-life relationships.…”

“…The extent of correlation between OSN and real-life relationships is a point of contention in recent research. Certain papers show that the interaction of users on OSNs greatly emulates their relationships in real life [1]- [3], while others argue that personality types of the users differ between their OSN personas and real-life personas [4], which makes discovering correlations between real-life relationships and OSN relationships a bit more complex. In any case, OSN datasets are a highly sought-after research resource in the field of social network analysis (SNA).…”

“…However, such datasets inherently contain personal data about a large number of people, which creates a number of serious security and privacy issues. Public disclosure of such datasets is extremely risky [5], especially after the 25th of May, 2018, when the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 1 [6] came into effect.…”

Exploratory analysis of pairwise interactions in online social networks

“…Social network analysis (SNA) is a research field which deals with analysing such networks and extracting useful information about people described within, with the analysis being mostly focused on user interactions. There are numerous possible applications: by analysing social networks sociologists and social psychologists are trying to explain how people's thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by presence of others [1,2]; recommender systems can use it to make customized and novel recommendations [3,4];…”