Unfriending on facebook: Friend request and online/offline behavior analysis

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sibona, Christopher ^a   Walczak, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS; FACEBOOK; OFFLINE; ONLINE BEHAVIOR; RESEARCH RESULTS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SURVEY RESEARCH;

SURVEYS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79952916740     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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