Judging you by the company you keep: Dating on social networking sites

GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 371-378

  Lee, Adeline Y ^a   Bruckman, Amy S ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Friends list; Friendster; Internet dating; MySpace; Online dating; Social networking sites; Top friends

Indexed keywords

DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; MYSPACE; NON-TRIVIAL; ONLINE DATING; QUALITATIVE DATA; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; USER INTERFACE DESIGNS;

INTERNET; USER INTERFACES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 76649091067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316624.1316680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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