Do i need to follow you? Examining the utility of the pinterest follow mechanism

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1751-1762

  Gelley, Bluma ^a   John, Ajita ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity Graph; Following; Online Social Networks; Pinterest; Social Browsing; Tie formation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

FOLLOWING; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PINTEREST; SOCIAL BROWSING; TIE FORMATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84968779677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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