'Looking at', 'looking up' or 'keeping up with' people? Motives and uses of Facebook

Adam N. Joinson

doi:10.1145/1357054.1357213

'Looking at', 'looking up' or 'keeping up with' people? Motives and uses of Facebook

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Abstract

This paper investigates the uses of social networking site Facebook, and the gratifications users derive from those uses. In the first study, 137 users generated words or phrases to describe how they used Facebook, and what they enjoyed about their use. These phrases were coded into 46 items which were completed by 241 Facebook users in Study 2. Factor analysis identified seven unique uses and gratifications: social connection, shared identities, content, social investigation, social network surfing and status updating. User demographics, site visit patterns and the use of privacy settings were associated with different uses and gratifications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Pages	1027-1036
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1357054.1357213
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	26th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008 - Florence, Italy Duration: 5 Apr 2008 → 10 Apr 2008

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Conference	26th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	5/04/08 → 10/04/08

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Motivation
Social networking sites
Uses and gratifications

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