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This paper introduces a novel theoretical lens of pseudo-community trust and studies its effect on member disclosure on social networking sites (SNSs). We collect survey data from 229 SNS users and validate the research model using the structural ...

This study identifies the potential mechanisms to reveal the differential relationships between social- and personal-based comparisons and self-presentation and self-exaggeration. Specifically, drawing upon cognitive emotion theory, this study ...

• This study reveals the differential mechanisms driving self-presentation and self-exaggeration.
• Social comparison and life dissatisfaction are associated with envy and shame.
• Envy is positively associated with self-presentation and ...

Numerous studies have shown that socially anxious individuals prefer technology-mediated communication over face-to-face interactions. The aim of this study was to examine possible differences between socially anxious and non-anxious individuals ...

• Socially anxious individuals do not differ from non-socially anxious individuals in time spent on social media
• Socially anxious individuals are characterized by less active social media use compared to non-socially anxious individuals

A bot is an automated code used for malicious activities such as posting fake news, spreading malware, commenting on tweets, and liking the tweets, on Social Networking Sites (SNS) like Twitter. This paper proposes a novel feature selection method ...

• The frequency rate of problematic social media use (BSMAS; > 19 cut-off) in a sample of young adults in Finland was 9.8 %.

The aim of the study was to identify associations between problematic social media use (PSMU), type of internet activity, various background factors, psychosocial factors (mood, fear of missing out, need to belong, social relationships)...

Expanding one’s social network has been associated with greater access to resources and social support. However, little is known about how under-resourced populations decide to make new connections online and under what circumstances. We interviewed 36 ...

• The role of individuals’ political and cultural beliefs on fake news believability.

Fake news has led to a polarized society as evidenced by diametrically opposed perceptions of and reactions to global events such as the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and presidential campaigns. Popular press has linked ...

The rapid growth of social networking sites (SNSs), known as web-based services, has become a natural digital phenomenon, reinforcing e-commerce concepts such as business-to-consumer (B2C) and consumer-to-consumer (C2C), known as ...

• A decision model has been developed to choose the right ad target on Facebook.
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Suicide deaths due to depression and mental stress are growing rapidly at an alarming rate. People freely express their feelings and emotions on social network sites while they feel hesitant to express such feelings during face-to-face ...

Loneliness is considered an epidemic in the United States due to its widespread and harmful effects to psychological and physiological well-being. Twitter provides the option of anonymity, a large audience and a space where feelings of ...

• We examine the responses to self-disclosures of loneliness on Twitter in 2019-2021.

• To elicit perceived personalization it is best to use interests, location or age.

On social networking sites, consumers disclose information about themselves which advertisers use to personalize advertisements. The underlying assumption is that personalized advertisements are more persuasive. However, it is not ...

The paper’s main aim is to investigate and predict major factors in students’ behavioral intentions toward academic use of Facebook/Meta as a virtual classroom, taking into account its adoption level, purpose, and education usage. In contrast to ...

The increase in internet use have turned the world into a global village. The advent and rise in utilization of social networking sites have revolutionized the everyday life and politics is no different. Social networking sites allow the public ...

The debate on the pros and cons of employee attachment to social networking sites (SNS) has led to social media policy paralysis in many organizations, and often a prohibition on employee use of SNS. This paper examines corporate users’ attachment ...

Social Networking Sites have significant potential to reveal valuable explicit as well as implicit statistics and patterns when deep learning is applied to their raw and unstructured data. Tweets posted by the users on their timeline ...

• Twitter data can provide predictive indicators of user behavior.
• We ...

The spread of fake news on social networking sites has become a problem. Users who share fake news have strong human needs (such as the desire for approval, belonging, and self-expression) and are likely to have characteristic words in their self-...

• This paper investigates privacy calculus from a configurational perspective.
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This study proposes a configurational privacy calculus model (CPCM) to understand calculus interdependency, personality contingency, and causal asymmetry in the information disclosure behavior in social networking sites (SNS). The ...

In series of studies, we sought to assess the extent to which social media use was related to the false consensus effect. Study 1 (N = 493) and Study 2 (N = 364, preregistered) assessed the relationship between social media use and the ...

• Heavier social media users showed higher rates of false consensus effects across a range of psychological characteristics.

Social networking sites (SNSs) have become a vital medium for companies to place advertisements and setting an objective of advertisements on SNSs is an important issue of planning a business’s market strategy. The purpose of this work is to ...

• This project adopted a mixed-method approach to examine supportive exchange on SNSs.

This project adopted a mixed-method approach to examine relational and contextual factors that influence people’s intention to provide support on SNSs. A pilot survey examined people’s use of SNSs for supportive exchange. Facebook was ...