Facebook or Fakebook? The effects of simulated mobile applications on simulated mobile networks

This paper examines differences in user behaviour between a real and simulated mobile social networking application through a user study (n = 80). We show that there are distinct differences in privacy behaviour between the real and simulated groups. We then simulate a mobile opportunistic network application using two real-world traces to demonstrate the impact of using real and simulated applications. We find large differences between using real and synthetic models of privacy behaviour, but smaller differences between models derived from the real and simulated applications.