Social Connectedness on Facebook - An explorative study on status message usage
ISBN
978-3-642-15140-8
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2010-06-01
Author(s)
Research Team
iw6-init
Abstract
With over 400 million active users Facebook is undeniably a large social phenomenon and one of the largest social networks on the Internet. Together with Facebook a variety of novel communication styles have developed, dramatically influencing social interaction. The underlying paper reports the results of a survey (N=109) analyzing Facebook’s micro-blogging function available through users’ status updates. Our results suggest that the use of status update messaging generates a feeling of connectedness between users. Furthermore, non-parametric analyses distinguishing between low- and highconnected groups have been performed and experimentally confirmed the existence of distinct user profiles as a function of the variable “feeling connected”. The analyses revealed that the more individuals use their status message function to actively reveal information about themselves, the more connected they feel. Connectedness seems the result of active information sharing modulated by the amount of information shared rather than by the type of information an individual is sharing.
Language
English
Keywords
Facebook
connectedness
social network
twitter
status update messages
quantitative study and survey
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Proceedings of the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2010
Publisher
Association for Information Systems
Publisher place
AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Event Title
16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010)
Event Location
Lima, Peru
Event Date
12.-15.08.2010
Official URL
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
220615
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