College students’ disclosure of location-related information on Facebook

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Highlights:

• We developed a new model to explain why people share their locations on Facebook.

• Our model explained 61% of the variance in why people share locations on Facebook.

• Findings are discussed in relation to behavioral-intention models.

• Practical implications for social media companies are offered.

摘要

•We developed a new model to explain why people share their locations on Facebook.•Our model explained 61% of the variance in why people share locations on Facebook.•Findings are discussed in relation to behavioral-intention models.•Practical implications for social media companies are offered.

论文关键词:Social networking sites,Facebook,Location-based services,Theory of reasoned action,Theory of planned behavior,Technology acceptance model

论文评审过程:Available online 16 March 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.02.028