Abstract

We study the locally-defined social capital metric of Palasek (2013) for determining individuals' prestige within an online social network. From it we derive an equivalent global measure by considering random walks over the network itself. This result inspires a novel expression quantifying the strategic desirability of a potential social connection. We show in silico that ideal social neighbors tend to satisfy a "big fish in a small pond" criterion and that the distribution of neighbor-desirability throughout a network is governed by anti-homophily.

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