Friendbook: An Advanced Friend Recommendation System For Social Networking sites

Abstract

A couple of years ago, people had a limited social circle. In this century of evolving technology, it has become easier for people to socialize on a large scale via social media. There are several methods in the existing social networking sites where friend recommendation is based on pre-existing relationships like mutual friends, geographical distances, etc. This is not best way to suggest friends based on recent social findings. Hence we have developed a friend recommendation system that recommends friends to the user based on the lifestyle vector. Inspired by Data Mining, this method uses Apriori algorithm to match the websites visited by the users, which is the similarity metric used in this method.