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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Networks. 2020 Jul 2;63:201–212. doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2020.06.003

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