Physics – Physics and Society
Scientific paper
2007-01-15
Physics
Physics and Society
10 pages with 6 figures; method adequately referred
Scientific paper
Social networking sites (SNS) have recently used by millions of people all over the world. An SNS is a society on the Internet, where people communicate and foster friendship with each other. We examine a nation-wide SNS (more than six million users at present), mutually acknowledged friendship network with third million people and nearly two million links. By employing a community-extracting method developed by Newman and others, we found that there exists a range of community-sizes in which only few communities are detected. This novel feature cannot be explained by previous growth models of networks. We present a simple model with two processes of acquaintance, connecting nearest neighbors and random linkage. We show that the model can explain the gap in the community-size distribution as well as other statistical properties including long-tail degree distribution, high transitivity, its correlation with degree, and degree-degree correlation. The model can estimate how the two processes, which are ubiquitous in many social networks, are working with relative frequencies in the SNS as well as other societies.
Fujiwara Yoshi
Ono Naoaki
Yuta Kikuo
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