“It’s Not Who You Know, but Who You Add:” An investigation into the differential impact of friend adding and self-disclosure on interpersonal perceptions on Facebook

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Highlights:

• We manipulated SNS profiles to see how it impacts the relational process.

• Adding a friend to one’s network led to feelings of interpersonal liking.

• Level of self-disclosure impacted feelings of homophily and liking.

• These main effects are impacted by both participant sex and SNS profile owner sex.

摘要

•We manipulated SNS profiles to see how it impacts the relational process.•Adding a friend to one’s network led to feelings of interpersonal liking.•Level of self-disclosure impacted feelings of homophily and liking.•These main effects are impacted by both participant sex and SNS profile owner sex.

论文关键词:Social networking,Facebook,Technological affordances,Interpersonal perceptions,Relationships

论文评审过程:Available online 27 March 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.02.037