Trust your social network according to satisfaction, reputation and privacy

Abstract

Nowadays we are witnessing a massive usage of social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.). Those systems facilitate user interaction; however, they disregard users' wellbeing because users are forced to trust the network and to use the system without any guarantees. We consider that this is little satisfactory for systems where the users make the network successful thanks to their interactions. In this work, we propose to study how to improve users' trust towards the system in terms of reputation, privacy and satisfaction. Despite former separate studies, we argue that these notions are strongly linked and must be analyzed in a correlated way.

Privacy Preserving Information Dispersal in Social Networks Based on Disposition to Privacy

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Credible reputation systems for P2P e-communities

“…In general, the interrelated reputation and privacy requirements of SN applications have to be thoroughly examined in order to establish the right tradeoff between them through the definition of the type and quantity of shared information, as stated in Busnel et al [140].…”