Design of a Social Networking Analysis and Information Logger Tool

This paper describes a design and development methodology used to facilitate the collection of information contained on Social Networking sites. It facilitates the ability to record data explicitly used by individuals, using Web 2.0 technology, to host their profiles and allows others to view, respond to, and share this information. The tool uses unobtrusive methods, to eleviate the problems of over burdening the Social Network servers and to elude throttling and black-listing restrictions commonly used by these services to prevent sources which do not act as good network citizens in this environment. The information obtained may be used to study the relationships of individual owners of a Web site. It may also be used to predict the bandwidth requirements of a social networking site based on the amount of users and specific ‘activities’ heuristically modeled.