When Friend Becomes Abuser: Evidence of Friend Abuse in Facebook

Abstract

We show through 2 user studies (n = 80), that a high number of participants have at least 1 Facebook friend whom they believe is likely to abuse their posted photos or status updates, or post offensive, false or malicious content, or with whom they never interact in Facebook and in real life. Our results reveal the importance of developing tools that automatically detect and defend against friend abuse in social networks.