Discover behavior of Turkish people in Orkut

摘要

Orkut is an online community of friends, which hosts over 150000 Turkeys, as the seventh most common nationality on this community. This research analyzes the trends of Orkut memberships by Turkeys and examines their characteristics as a window into learning more about the youth population of Turkey and their connection with the Internet. This research suggest that Turkeys membership in Orkut rose sharply during the second half of year 2004, but stopped its false growth after the filtering of network inside Turkey and emergence of competing social networks in early 2005. The demographic data gathered through random sampling of Turkish members of Orkut suggests that the average age of this population is 26 years old, and only 20% of which are married. This population is comprised of 68% male and 32% female. About half (52%) of the population declare themselves as muslim and 8% declare to have other religions, including being spiritual but not religious. Also the data suggests that 19% of the population smoke and 43% drink alcohol with different frequencies. The statistics on the usage and linkage on the Orkut network suggests that individuals have an average of 34 friends on the network and have about 10 fans and 19 scraps on their file. The regression analysis provides a window into smoking, drinking, popularity, and friendship patterns of individuals. Beyond expected relationships, such as lower drinking among muslims, one can see that older and married people have more friends in Orkut, women and those who don't smoke have more fans, people with children tend to drink more, drinking and smoking are closely related, and finally, people of other religions tend to smoke and drink more than non-religious people