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000000298 100__ $$aHootan Rashtian
000000298 245__ $$aTowards understanding how users decide about friendship requests in Online Social Networks
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000000298 520__ $$aAccepting friend requests from strangers in Facebook-like online social networks  is known to be a risky behavior. Still, empirical evidence suggests that Facebook  users often accept such requests with high rate. As a first step towards technology  support of users in their decisions about friend requests, we investigate why users  accept such requests. We conducted two studies of users’ befriending behavior on  Facebook. Based on 20 interviews with active Facebook users, we developed a  friend request acceptance model that explains how various factors influence user  acceptance behavior. To test and refine our model, we also conducted a quantitative  study with 397 participants using Amazon Mechanical Turk. We found that  four factors significantly impact the receiver’s decision towards requests sent from  strangers, namely, knowing the requester’s in real world, having common hobbies  or interests, having mutual friends, and the closeness of mutual friends. Based on  our findings, we offer design recommendations for improving the usability of the  corresponding user interfaces in order to help users make more informed decisions.
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000000298 8564_ $$uhttp://lersse-dl.ece.ubc.ca/record/298/files/ubc_2014_september_rashtian_hootan.pdf
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000000298 909C4 $$pHootan Rashtian, "Towards understanding how users decide about friendship requests in Online Social Networks," MASc Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, June, 2014, pp.108
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