Retirees on facebook: Can online social networking enhance their health and wellness?

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2287-2292

  Shyam Sundar, S ^a   Behr, Richard A ^a   Oeldorf Hirsch, Anne ^a   Nussbaum, Jon F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Retirees; Social networking sites; Well being

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

FACEBOOK; HEALTH AND WELLNESS; MENTAL HEALTH; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; RETIREE; SENIOR CITIZENS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE; SOCIAL-NETWORKING; WELL BEING;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 79957952531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979931     Document Type: Conference Paper

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