Table 5.
Criteria used for ranking potential alter-Facebook matches and the number of resulting matches.
| Criteria | Number of alter-Facebook profile matches | Number of alter-Facebook profile matches where Facebook profile is friends with respondent | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Levenshtein distance of alter name and profile name | Number of possible matches | Difference in Age | Same sex? | Same city? | ||
| 0 | 1 | - | - | - | 44 | 22 |
| ≤ 0.5 | 1 | ≤ 5 years | Yes | Yes | 5 | 4 |
| ≤ 0.5 | 1 | ≤ 5 years | Yes | No | 5 | 1 |
| ≤ 0.5 | 1 | ≤ 5 years | No | Yes | 4 | 3 |
| ≤ 0.5 | 1 | ≤ 5 years | No | No | 39 | 9 |
| ≤ 0.5 | 1 | > 5 years | Yes | No | 2 | 0 |
| ≤ 0.5 | > 1 | ≤ 5 years | Yes | Yes | 380 | 191 |
| ≤ 0.5 | > 1 | ≤ 5 years | Yes | No | 350 | 126 |
| ≤ 0.5 | > 1 | ≤ 5 years | No | Yes | 113 | 80 |
| ≤ 0.5 | > 1 | ≤ 5 years | No | No | 513 | 307 |
| ≤ 0.5 | > 1 | > 5 years | Yes | Yes | 21 | 12 |
| ≤ 0.5 | > 1 | > 5 years | Yes | No | 35 | 4 |
| ≤ 0.5 | > 1 | > 5 years | No | Yes | 24 | 21 |