Profiling People in Social Graphs

Our world is now a connected place. Through social networking, the Internet has brought people closer together than they ever have been. The result is a complex, massive and global web or graph of people and the relationships between them. This is both useful and dangerous. In this paper, we aim to reveal the power of the social graph, showing how it can be used to gather information about a person and build an accurate profile about him. A social graph can also tell us the 'proximity' of a person to others, which in many cases can provide valuable insights to security agencies and governments.