The article gets to the heart of the major weakness of social networking sites to actually replicate a real life social circle in that as the article states social networking sites treat "All friend links are equal, and usually equally visible to public. The information is not very reliable - extra information
is required to acknowledge the highly differentiated nature of human relationships."
The article than goes on to propose plausible solutions to this problem. Through examination of major social networking platforms the author concludes that to apply algorithims to more accurately and organically represent people you are truly friends with is through comment analysis. That a system could crawl the people you converse with and comment with the most could represent those people as closer friends.
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