We are aware that properly anonymizing online social network data is very challenging.  Clever schemes have been found to break seemingly well anonymized data sets (e.g., the NetFlix data set).  For the data we make available, we use a "best effort" anonymization.  We do not offer any strong guarantees and we suspect that our anonymization scheme can likely be broken by clever comparisons to other real-world data. We encourage people to help bring problems and fixes to our notice, should they find any.

1. •List of links
   
   These files contain a list of all of the user-to-user links from the Facebook New Orleans networks.  All links are treated as directed, even though they are undirected on Facebook.
   
   Format:  Gzipped ASCII.  Each line contains two anonymized user identifiers, meaning the second user appeared in the first user's friend list. Finally, the third column is a UNIX timestamp with the time of link establishment (if it could be determined, otherwise it is '\N').
   
   Data: Facebook Links (10.4MB)
   
   

2. •List of wall posts
   
   These files contain a list of all of the wall posts from the Facebook New Orleans networks.
   
   Format:  Gzipped ASCII.  Each line contains two anonymized user identifiers, meaning the second user posted on the first user's wall. The third column is a UNIX timestamp with the time of the wall post.
   
   Data: Facebook Wall Posts (6.8MB)
   
   

BibTeX

@inproceedings{viswanath-2009-activity,
  author = {Bimal Viswanath and Alan Mislove and Meeyoung Cha and Krishna P. Gummadi},
  title = {On the Evolution of User Interaction in Facebook}, 
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN'09)},
  location = {Barcelona, Spain},
  month = {August},
  year = {2009}
}