Young Lindsay E, Ramachandran Arthi, Schumm L Phillip, Khanna Aditya S, Schneider John A
Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Soc Networks. 2020 Oct;63:201-212. doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2020.06.003. Epub 2020 Jul 2.
Capturing dynamics in high-risk personal networks is essential for preventing HIV transmission. Online social networking data offer incentive to augment traditional selfreported approaches for network enumeration. To explore what online networks reveal about dynamics among high-risk associates, we examine the relationship between egocentric confidant and sex networks and personal Facebook friendship networks of a cohort of young Black men who have sex with men. Although overlap exists between self-reported and Facebook associates, the stabilities of each were unrelated. Confidants who were also Facebook friends with a respondent were, however, more likely to be retained. Thus, Facebook networks contain stable confidants.
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