Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
8-2010
Abstract
Mobile social networks are gaining popularity with the pervasive use of mobile phones and other handheld devices. In these networks, users maintain friendship links, exchange short messages and share content with one another. In this paper, we study the user behaviors in mobile messaging and friendship linking using the data collected from a large mobile social network service known as myGamma (m.mygamma.com). We distinguish two types of user behaviors: soliciting active responses for an initiated message and responding to an incoming message. We propose various models for the two behaviors also known as engagingness and responsiveness. Our experiments show that the two behaviors are quite distinct from each other although they may be correlated. We also show that engaging and responsive users enjoy more friendships. Finally, we show that the engaging and responsive users participate more in messaging about major topics.
Keywords
User behaviors, Mobile social networks, Engagingness, Responsiveness, LDA
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Publication
Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking (SIN-10)
Volume
SIN-276
Issue
24
Identifier
10.1109/SocialCom.2010.68
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Minneapolis, USA
Citation
ON, Byung-Won; LIM, Ee Peng; JIANG, Jing; CHUA, Freddy Tat Chua; NGUYEN, Viet-An; and TEOW, Loo Nin.
Messaging behavior modeling in mobile social networks. (2010). Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking (SIN-10). SIN-276, (24),.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/622
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Additional URL
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SocialCom.2010.68
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