Social Media Friends Research Articles

Vive la résistance: a boomerang effect of resisting incentivized eWOM on consumer trust

Incentivizing consumers to share product recommendations and other forms of eWOM (electronic word of mouth) with their social media friends has become a prevalent promotional strategy among marketers. However, could this strategy potentially backfire? Adopting a metacognitive perspective, we suggest that this approach adversely affects those consumers who reject the incentive and resist sharing the message. We hypothesize that for individuals who rejected an incentive to share a message, lower initial message trustworthiness leads to decreased subsequent message trustworthiness. This effect arises as consumers reflect on their own behavior, subsequently developing perceived manipulative intent. This proposed sequential process was substantiated in two experimental studies. The results demonstrate a negative effect of initial eWOM trustworthiness on subsequent trustworthiness following incentive rejection (Studies 1-2). Furthermore, this effect is mediated by perceived manipulative intent and is bounded by the size of the incentive offered for sharing eWOM (Study 2). Both theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

More social media friends, more life satisfaction?– why fear of missing out leads to contrary effects

AbstractFear of Missing Out is a focus of research in social sciences, especially with respect to social media use. This study examined the extent to which social media use (active and passive, respectively) elicits Fear of Missing Out due to greater perceived bridging and bonding social. In addition, the extent to which Fear of Missing Out affects feelings of stress and life satisfaction was investigated. In an online survey 1230 participants were included. Within the framework of a path model, the assumption of an indirect effect of both active and passive social media use via social capital, Fear of Missing Out, and stress on life satisfaction was confirmed. Finally, further study results as well as implications and limitations of this research are discussed.

An Analysis of the Role of Social Media on the Adoption of Internet Banking by University Students in Zimbabwe

The aim of the study was to analyse the role of social media on the adoption of internet banking by university students in Zimbabwe. The study adopted a sequential explanatory research design with the goal of using mixed research approach. Purposive sampling technique was adopted. A sample of 450 university students studying qualifications ranging from certificates to master degrees were selected from two (2) public universities and two (2) private universities in Zimbabwe. Data was gathered using questionnaires which were distributed to 450 university students. The study revealed, through a Chi Square test that there was a relationship between social media messages and videos on internet banking accessed by university students per day and adoption of internet banking by the university students. The study also found university students frequently check out videos on internet banking sent and uploaded on social media platforms by the banks. The study found that the effects of social media on adoption of internet banking by university students are that social media friends of the students have approved use of internet banking products, banks provide advice on internet banking using social media, videos and messages which are easy to understand, banks frequently give updates on internet banking issues using social media and banks also share latest technologies through social media. The study revealed that banks are slow at responding to internet banking queries raised by students in various social media platforms. The study recommends that banks should be very alert on social media and quickly respond to their customers’ messages. Banks should carry out some training online workshop for their clients who use Facebook so that they can understand the needs of the customers and make their products easy to understand.

Crowdfunding from friends: Tie strength and embeddedness

Crowdfunding is a useful channel for new or inexperienced “rookie” entrepreneurs to solicit funding for their projects. This study examines the individual funding decisions arising from the heterogeneity in the tie strength and embeddedness of the dyadic relationships between social media friends and rookie project initiators (PIs). Using integrated crowdfunding-social media data, we find that friends' funding likelihood increases with a stronger tie or greater embeddedness, whereas friends' funding amount only increases with greater embeddedness. We further find early evidence that the effect of tie strength on the friend's funding decision is sensitive to the evaluation of project success potential, whereas that of embeddedness is less so. Moreover, embeddedness, but not tie strength, contributes to the project's funding success. The findings run counter to the prevailing view of strong ties in crowdfunding while shedding new light on the persistently supportive role of embedded ties.

Social Media Friends From Afterschool are Associated With Positive Youth Development in Digital Settings.

Positive youth development has been extensively documented in contexts such as the family, school, and afterschool. Emerging theory and research indicate that digital contexts such as social media may also be venues through which young people develop skills and attributes associated with the 5 Cs model of positive youth development and thriving. This research attempted to understand if and how middle school youth's in-person and online networks connect, and if they do connect, do these connections relate to engaging in beliefs and behaviors associated with PYD. Results suggest that in this sample, middle school youth include peers from afterschool in their online networks, and those who have friends from afterschool and school engaged in PYD- related social media behaviors at higher rates than those who were not connected to in-person networks. No association was found between the amount of time spent in after-school contexts and any of the positive or problematic social media outcomes in this study. Implications for youth development professionals considering the influence of social media on youth, and next steps for research on after-school activities and social media use of middle school youth are discussed.

How Challenging It Is to Learn Mathematics Online

Distance education is an unprecedented form of instruction for most students, making it difficult to learn, especially in Mathematics. This study aimed to elucidate the students' level of challenge in learning mathematics and its influencing predictors amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Primary data was gathered through a Google form questionnaire from 135 college students under a non-probabilistic sampling. Some descriptive statistical measures and a regression model were employed to summarize and analyze the data gathered. Results revealed that the mean challenge perception score was 6.45, which indicates that learning mathematics at a distance is "challenging". The regression models revealed that students have difficulty acquiring internet load due to the financial crisis. Due to anxiety brought by the pandemic and distractions through social media friends, students cannot focus on their mathematics activities. In addition, due to some limitations and barriers in remote learning, students have difficulty understanding their lessons. Hence, mathematics teachers need to have positive attitudes and encourage students to pursue despite all the challenges. Furthermore, teachers must also be considerate to their students regarding output deadlines and examinations.

Social Interactions for Detecting Stress Based Issues

Mental stress is showing harmfulness to human health leads abnormal stress in chronology with this may lose our mental health for proactive care. With recognizable pieces of proof of web-based media, individuals cannot share their everyday exercises and collaborate with companions via web-based media stages, making it happing to use online informal community information for stress identification. We find that users stress state is closely associated with thereupon of his/her friends in social media, which we employ a large-scale dataset from real-world social platforms to systematically study the relationship between users’ stress states and social interactions. We first define a gaggle of stress-related comments, images, and social attributes from various aspects, then proposed a plot. Research results saying that the proposed model can improve the detection performance. With the help of enumeration, we build an internet site for the users to spot their stress rate level and may check other related activities.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND TRAVEL WEBSITES USE ON LEISURE TRAVELING AMONG MILLENNIAL

Specifically, the study arose to provide facts regarding the utilization of social media and travel websites. Individuals from the Millennial cohort who are, at the same time, working in the government sector served as respondents. They were classified based on the age (18-35) and sector. Through survey design, the questionnaires were equally administered. To measure the responses/data, the researcher applied statistical analysis. Meanwhile, female respondents dominated the sampling population, and a majority of the latter are performing teaching jobs. Initially, the researcher found out that a number of respondents are utilizing social media sites on leisure traveling, particularly Facebook, Youtube, and Google. Predominantly, these sites are used in gathering travel data, which are: travel package, a photograph of destination, hotel accommodation, and article of destination. For sources, the majority are getting information from their social media friends. Travel websites seem to need good strategies in publicizing their products or services since only a few are familiar with the given websites from forbes.com’s top list. However, some are familiar with Airbnb, a global lodging website which caters now not only hotel reservations but City tours and car rentals. Furthermore, majority of the respondents are having some leisure travel once a year, and preferring domestic over international trip, and coastal areas for place and setting. But only the age, among the socio-economic characteristics, has significant relationship to the selected leisure traveling practices of the respondents.

Reinventing Networking During Era of Social Distancing

Reinventing Networking During Era of Social Distancing

Intentional vs. unintentional influences of social media friends

Abstract On social media, individuals’ behavior can be affected as a result of either direct and intended recommendations by social media friends, or unintentional brand-related actions developed by social media friends. This study addresses the differences between intentional and unintentional influences by testing a model that delineates similarity and tie strength as drivers of influence, and purchase intention and social media engagement as the main outcomes. Based on the elaboration likelihood model, we analyze the underlying mechanism of unintentional influences versus intentional ones by comparing the role of source usefulness and information usefulness in the two influential processes. Results of two studies show that individuals can be unintentionally influenced by their social media friends, and the effect is similar to that from intentional influences. However, different mechanisms seem to be involved in the two influential processes. A central route of processing seems to be the mechanism underlying intentional influence, whereas both central and peripheral routes are used when the influence is unintentional.

Use of Digital Technologies and Social Media and the Social Relationships of Teenagers

Abstract Polish pedagogical and psychological literature as well as mass media more and more often inform about disorders of competences and social relations of teenagers, as a result of abuse of digital technologies, especially smartphones. The authors analysed 31 cases of patients with cyberabuse and addictions at the Social Prevention Centre in terms of the occurrence, intensity and character of the disappearance of their real social contacts, as well as their behaviour in small natural peer groups. The obtained results were compared with 49 groups of adults and parents of patients. Research based on participatory observation and in-depth interviews showed that teenagers devote over 62% less time to personal social relations than their parents, their time of real social relations with parents is about 38 minutes per day, create atomistic attitudes towards family (e.g. refusal to participate in common meals), have shallow and narrow groups of friends, and prefer borrowed contacts (through social media). The average declared number of teenagers’ friends in social media exceeds 540, while their parents use smartphones in less than 140. Young respondents use smartphones in almost every social and life context (e.g. in toilets, in church, at school, during meals). The research confirmed the occurrence of digital technology abuse. The article ends with preventive delegations.

Cyber Bully: Emotional Impact among UKM students

The use of social media without civic culture among students has plagued many IPTA students in cyberbullying. Cyberbullying can be done in the uploading of cruel words, photographs and videos of the victim to hoax, incite, defame, revenge until the predators feel great and powerful. The fastest duration of all information can be disseminated in fast pace with worldwide reach. Among the factors of cyberbullying occurred in early adulthood are jealousy, discovering social media friends' attention, 'jaguar' capacity or gangster in social media. Previous studies focus more on bullying phenomena among adolescents, school students and mass media users. While, there are very few studies on the issue of cyberbullying among university students. The main objective of this study is to explore the impact of cyber bullying on UKM students. This study was conducted using a qualitative approach based on case study. Techniques of collecting research data through structured interviews in writing. 6 respondents were selected for this study using purposive sampling technique. The location of the study chosen was Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Structured interview data were analyzed in a thematic manner and the findings found that there were five major implications of emotional, depression, suicidal desire, overwhelming sadness, uncertainty and uncontrolled feelings found in transcripts of study informants. Implications of this study are expected to suggest appropriate intervention and advocacy programs to social workers in handling cyber bullying cases at the Student Counseling Division, UKM.

Active and Passive Facebook Use and Associated Costly Off-line Helping Behavior.

This study examined active and passive Facebook use and the associated costly altruistic behavior. Results supported the hypothesis that social media use, particularly active use, can enhance the perceived relatedness of individuals in need and reduce the influence of genetic relatedness in helping. Passive social media users tended to help kin in both situations involving low and high biological cost, whereas they were less likely to risk themselves to help social media friends and strangers in extraordinary situations involving high biological cost. However, active social media users, who had a broader sense of connectedness with genetically unrelated individuals, were more willing to help social media friends and strangers in both situations involving high and low biological cost.

ACS: Your brick-and-mortar and virtual network all in one

Is the American Chemical Society your professional network, or is it your social network? For me, the line between my professional and personal contacts on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn has blurred. This is partly because my professional contacts have become friends, and social media friends have become colleagues. But the line has also blurred because my professional contacts often communicate their chemistry to me through social media. That doesn’t mean I will necessarily listen—which is why the brick-and-mortar part of ACS is so crucial. That is, I am more likely to interact with people on social media whom I recognize as chemists from my ACS interactions, and I then look for them at my next ACS national meeting. A professional network like ACS can serve as your local coffee shop if you interact with it through your student chapter or your local section. Just like at a coffee shop, the

A systematic study on predicting depression using text analytics

Social Networking Sites (SNS) provides online communication among groups but somehow it is affecting the status of mental health. For adolescents with limited social media friends and using internet for communication purposes predicted less depression, whereas non-communication desire reveals more depression and anxiety disorder. Social media posts and comments provide a rich source of text data for academic research. In this paper, we have discussed various text analytical approaches to predict depression among users through the sharing of online ideas over such websites. This paper presents a comprehensive review for predicting depression disorder by various text analytics approaches. This paper also presents the summary of results obtained by some researchers available in literature to predict Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). In future research, enable self-monitoring of health status of each individuals which may help to increase well-being of an identity. Keywords : Social Networking Sites; Sentiment Analysis; Machine Learning; Support Vector Machine.

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION STUDENTS` READING HABIT: A CASE STUDY IN UNIVERSITY OF BATURAJA

ABSTRACT The objective of this study were to find out (1) reading habit of the second semester students in Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Baturaja, (2) what the students read when they connect to the internet. The population were all of students in Faculty of Teacher Training and Education with the total 1963 students. The samples of this study taken by random sampling based on the confidence level 90 or 99 percent were 351 respondents. The data were collected in form of questionnaire and interview and was analyzed by using percentage analysis. This study had proved that although most of the students were motivated to read various kinds of texts, their reading practices are mostly because of doing reading assignments, passing the exam, and getting a job. Still, only few of them read for pleasure and for happiness which could be assumed as an indicator of good reading habits. The activities of the students when they connect to the internet were: downloading texts, reading e-book, chatting with friends in social media, reading messages in social media account, reading e-journal, checking and read email, downloading software, and playing online games. Secondly, the students visit the library for specific study purposes, such as preparing notes or findings answers to questions, preparing for thesis consultation, borrowing books, photocopying, and reading research proposal, thesis, and waiting for the next class. Keywords : Reading, reading habit

Detecting Stress Based on Social Interactions in Social Networks

Psychological stress is threatening people’s health. It is non-trivial to detect stress timely for proactive care. With the popularity of social media, people are used to sharing their daily activities and interacting with friends on social media platforms, making it feasible to leverage online social network data for stress detection. In this paper, we find that users stress state is closely related to that of his/her friends in social media, and we employ a large-scale dataset from real-world social platforms to systematically study the correlation of users’ stress states and social interactions. We first define a set of stress-related textual, visual, and social attributes from various aspects, and then propose a novel hybrid model - a factor graph model combined with Convolutional Neural Network to leverage tweet content and social interaction information for stress detection. Experimental results show that the proposed model can improve the detection performance by 6-9 percent in F1-score. By further analyzing the social interaction data, we also discover several intriguing phenomena, i.e., the number of social structures of sparse connections (i.e., with no delta connections) of stressed users is around 14 percent higher than that of non-stressed users, indicating that the social structure of stressed users’ friends tend to be less connected and less complicated than that of non-stressed users.

The Pursuit of Romantic Alternatives Online: Social Media Friends as Potential Alternatives

What causes some marriages to stand the test of time while others fail? Marital commitment is the key force underlying the stability, quality, and longevity of the romantic relationship. Commitment is strengthened in the presence of marital satisfaction, the absence of alternative attractions, and steady investments made in the relationship. Commitment is also a consequence of increasing dependence. When partners are emotionally engaged with their virtual connections, their dependence on the significant other decreases. On the contrary, dependence on the partner increases when people feel satisfied with their relationship, think unfavorably about the quality of available alternatives, and feel that they have made great investments in their relationship. Technological advancements of the present era have spawned a wide array of social networking sites (SNSs) that display boastfully curated profiles of virtual connections. These overly glossed profiles may lead social media users to feel deficient in their lives. Previous research has shown that Facebook use can reduce relationship satisfaction by providing potential romantic alternatives and deflecting time and emotional investments away from the committed relationship. This article examines the commitment literature and discusses how commitment is undermined in the contemporary era. Finally, marital therapy is addressed with suggestions for future areas of exploration.

INTERNET ACCESS AND USAGE IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING IN INDONESIA OPEN UNIVERSITY

Internet is well known nowadays, however higher distance education students who live in remote rural areas still have not been able to take advantages of this medium optimally for their learning process. For accessing the internet the students have to be available with the minimum prerequisites: the existence of adequate devices and the sufficient capabilities. For education purposes, the students use the internet to meet their information and fulfill learning needs, facilitate interpersonal communications, and provide groups of discussion, as well as to be connected with friends in social media. This study aims to analyze the relationship between internet access and usage in improving students' self-directed learning which is using structural equation model method. The survey is conducted in seven districts in Surakarta Regional Office of Indonesia Open University with a sample size of 320 respondents. The result shows that the internet usage is still low due to limited internet facilities that affect the knowledge and willingness of students to access the internet. The strategy in improving student internet usage is applying social media as guidance that can be accessed through cellular phones.

관광객의 소셜 미디어 사용에 있어서 친사회적 동기가 긍정적, 부정적 결과에 미치는 영향

Social media users tend to use social media in order to impress other people in smart tourism environments. Especially, since tourism consumption can be associated with higher economic ability and enough leisure time, the majority of tourists has used social media in order to show off their touristic experience and information to social media friends. Tourists have spent much time to select, edit and post their photos and messages during their stay at luxurious hotels or resorts and famous tourism destinations, which can influence on excessive periods of time in social media and ultimately induce negative consequences. Therefore, the present study tried to focus on the factors affecting passion toward and consequences from the use of social media. To be more specific, the present study investigated the impact of altruistic and egoistic motivations on harmonious passion and negative passion, which induce positive and negative consequences.