Friend Recommendation in Social Media Platforms using Big Data Analysis

These days it's very common to opt for digital immersion for a quick getaway from the tiring schedule throughout the day.People of all age groups love to spend time on social media learning and making new friends .All Social Networks can be thought of as a platform for global connection and easy communication.Social media has become a platform for connecting with people worldwide,where they share photos,videos and follow their friends. Nowadays,with the rapid growth of users in social media platforms and the amount of information they gather about their users,recommendation system is ideal at connecting people in the social media.In this paper ,we come up with an idea to use mapreduce algorithm on the data collected by the Cassandra tool.To verify the evaluation results ,we also use Apache Mahout’s Recommendation engine.