
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.1583712
This paper considers situations in which social networks expand on the web. These are sustained through content produced by individual agents. An incentive for such production is utility stemming from others’ viewings. Whether a network is expansible or not depends on marginal utilities from viewing and being viewed, while a greater marginal utility from viewing is necessary for such a network. This is proven using Nash equilibrium and a random graph in which agents are stochastically connected to each other.
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