Social connectedness on Facebook - An explorative study on status message usage

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 2509-2520

  Köbler, Felix ^a   Riedl, Christoph ^a   Vetter, Céline ^b   Leimeister, Jan Marco ^c   Krcmar, Helmut ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectedness; Facebook; Quantitative study and survey; Social network; Status update messages; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CONNECTEDNESS; FACEBOOK; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STATUS UPDATE MESSAGES; TWITTER;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870337445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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