An assessment of feature selection based mechanism to recommend friends in online social networks

In online social networks billions of people connect with each other. They join different groups based on their interests and also recommended by their friends. To recommend a friend a friend recommendation system is used. Recommending a friend to join a group and add a new friend is very complex. In this paper an attempt has been made to describe the friend recommendation techniques and methodologies efficiently. Work done by various researchers is presented and a cohesive approach for friend recommendation is proposed to recommend friends in Twitter and a comparison of the existing method with proposed algorithm is presented.