A Model Integrating Information of Multiple Social Networks

With the growing popularity of social networks, social network platforms with different scales and their distinct characteristics are forming worldwide. For the mutual competition between the companies, the younger generations start to use different social network platforms to do social activities. As these platforms compete with each other and share the markets, more and more young people start to be the user of different social network platforms and socialize with their friends. Unfortunately, they have to tolerant bad user experience when using many social network platforms in mobile devices because of the poor hardware performance and small mobile phone screen. To improve the user experience, this research, basing on the ordinary theories of information integration, combining the features of social network information, introducing mapping mechanism, proposes Multi-Social Networks' Information Integration Model. The model is viewed from the perspective of methodology and descripted in the formal methods. Finally, the performance of the model is evaluated by the experiments, which shows user experience is improved significantly.