Online social networks are often a by-product of blogging and other online media sites on the Internet. Services such as LiveJournal allow their users to specify who their “friends” are, and thus a social network is formed. This paper will explore the relationship between users with the intent of being able to make a prediction of a users age and country of residence based on the information gi...

The world wide web (WWW) is not anymore just an information retrieval system [1] but rather an interactive communication medium. Within the last decade online social networks have evolved and constantly increased in popularity. The currently most used online social network services, according to their estimated monthly active users1, are Facebook (1.27 billion, facebook.com), Google Plus (541mi...