An examination of the behaviour of young and older users of facebook

Darren Quinn; Liming Chen; Maurice Mulvenna

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_2

An examination of the behaviour of young and older users of facebook

Darren Quinn, Liming Chen, Maurice Mulvenna

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Abstract

Increased use in recent years of social networking applications such as Facebook has resulted in a rapid growth of user generated content. As a communication tool for social engagement, the online patterns and characteristics of individuals and user types can now be better understood by monitoring user behaviour, activity frequency and modality of use. The aim of this paper is to present an analysis of the behaviour and characteristics of young and older user groups in an online social network. Our findings show that correlations exist between user behaviour and age, based upon activities as evidenced within the data. Visualisation of full user activity has further helped our understanding of user behaviour by identifying interaction patterns, which may be used for the monitoring of social engagement.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Electronic Healthcare - 4th International Conference, eHealth 2011, Revised Selected Papers
Pages	9-16
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_2
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 18 Jun 2012
Event	4th ICST International Conference on eHealth, eHealth 2011 - Malaga, Spain Duration: 21 Nov 2011 → 23 Nov 2011

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Volume	91 LNICST
ISSN (Print)	1867-8211

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Conference	4th ICST International Conference on eHealth, eHealth 2011
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Malaga
Period	21/11/11 → 23/11/11

Keywords

Interaction Analysis
Social Computing
Social Networking

UN SDGs

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Quinn, D., Chen, L., & Mulvenna, M. (2012). An examination of the behaviour of young and older users of facebook. In Electronic Healthcare - 4th International Conference, eHealth 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 9-16). (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 91 LNICST). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_2

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Quinn, D, Chen, L & Mulvenna, M 2012, An examination of the behaviour of young and older users of facebook. in Electronic Healthcare - 4th International Conference, eHealth 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 91 LNICST, pp. 9-16, 4th ICST International Conference on eHealth, eHealth 2011, Malaga, Spain, 21/11/11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_2

An examination of the behaviour of young and older users of facebook. / Quinn, Darren; Chen, Liming ; Mulvenna, Maurice.
Electronic Healthcare - 4th International Conference, eHealth 2011, Revised Selected Papers. 2012. p. 9-16 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 91 LNICST).

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