Predicting Friendship Strength for Privacy Preserving
Nitish Dhakal, Francesca Spezzano, Dianxiang Xu · 2017
Effective friend classification in Online Social Networks (OSN) has many benefits in privacy. Anything posted by a user in social networks like Facebook is distributed among all their friends. Although the user can select the manual option for their post-dissemination, it is not feasible every time. Since not all friends are the same in social networks, the visibility access for the post should be different for different strengths of friendship for privacy. Previous works in finding friendship strength in social networks have used interaction and similarity based features but none of them has considered using sentiment-based features as the driving factor to determine the strength.