Relational maintenance on social network sites: How Facebook communication predicts relational escalation

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Highlights：

• Analyzes actual Facebook communication traces between 1544 friendships.

• Extends understanding of how SNSs support new types of relational maintenance.

• Escalation is associated with recent, frequent, and varied Facebook communication.

• Linguistic content of communication is not related to relational escalation.

摘要

•Analyzes actual Facebook communication traces between 1544 friendships.•Extends understanding of how SNSs support new types of relational maintenance.•Escalation is associated with recent, frequent, and varied Facebook communication.•Linguistic content of communication is not related to relational escalation.

论文关键词：Relationship maintenance behaviors,Relational stability and change,Social network sites,Facebook

论文评审过程：Available online 22 March 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.02.044