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Gabriela GrosseckThe social networking site Facebook has become an inescapable phenomenon for college students, but little systematic research has studied why these students use Facebook. I conducted an online survey among Facebook users at the University of North Carolin
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These networks can form groups, donned “urban tribes” by journalist Ethan Watters, and can be functional units that take on many of the roles that a traditional family would fill. Some of these groups care for each other when sick, help each other move furniture or loan each other money when financial times are hard (Watters, 2003).
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ssentially, Facebook operates primarily as a tool for the facilitation of gossip. It makes sense that Facebook would be ideal for this kind of communication. With Facebook, for those interested in gossip can bring up everything they need to talk about their subjects, from photos to a list of their interests to the status of relationships.
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Because Facebook is centered on colleges, people are more likely to already know others in their Facebook directory or to be able to recognize them than on SNSs that aren’t geographically based, such as MySpace. Gossip is more interesting when it involves people one knows, so other SNSs may not work as well as a tool for gossip. Similarly, the contact information of strangers on MySpace may be less useful than that of friends or classmates on Facebook.
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meanderinglaraABSTRACT: "The social networking site Facebook has become an inescapable phenomenon for college students, but little systematic research has studied why these students use Facebook. I conducted an online survey among Facebook users at the University of No
in:FirstMonday by:BABumgarner Social_Networking Facebook Article Analysis Research
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The social networking site Facebook has become an inescapable phenomenon for college students, but little systematic research has studied why these students use Facebook. I conducted an online survey among Facebook users at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (N=1,049) to examine why they use Facebook and how it fulfills their needs. The most prevalent use of Facebook was as a social activity – students reported using Facebook with friends to view and discuss other people’s profiles. Essentially, Facebook appears to operate primarily as a tool for the facilitation of gossip.
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Jennifer Kelleyonline survey among Facebook users at the University of North
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Trey MartindaleAbstract
The social networking site Facebook has become an inescapable phenomenon for college students, but little systematic research has studied why these students use Facebook. I conducted an online survey among Facebook users at the University of Nor -
Christian Kreutz
You have been poked: Exploring the uses and gratifications of Facebook
among emerging adults by Brett A. Bumgarner
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