This research examines users' motives for adopting and using social networking sites
(SNSs), with the aim of providing a better understanding of the fundamental reasons behind …

Problematic Internet use has long been a matter of concern; however, few studies extend
this line of research from general Internet use to the use of social network sites (SNSs), or …

Drawing from the Uses and Gratifications Theory, this study examined the Gratification
Sought and the Gratification Obtained from using Social Networking Sites among Iranian …

The goal of this study was to learn about how college students are using the Internet and to
compare their use of it to that of college students as reported in 2002 by replicating and …

Adolescence is marked by many changes, and adolescents seek peer support to
compensate for the concomitant psychological and social challenges they face. In this …

Extant Facebook research focuses on how Facebook users develop and maintain
relationships, while largely neglecting to identify specific communicative behaviors used to …

In this paper, we describe the results of a qualitative study conducted with 120 Italian
Facebook users to investigate how Facebook enables people to achieve a mutually …

Previous research has found a link between television viewing and parasocial perceptions
of public figures, but most of these previous studies have been on celebrities or athletes …

Innerhalb weniger Jahre haben sich soziale Onlinenetzwerke wie Facebook für Jugendliche
zum zentralen Knotenpunkt der digitalen Kommunikation entwickelt. Ihre Kernfunktionalität …

This paper applied the uses and gratifications theory to the social networking site, Facebook,
in an effort to examine the predictive power of consumers' motivations with regards to site …