Limiting, leaving, and (re)lapsing: An exploration of Facebook non-use practices and experiences

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3257-3266

  Baumer, Eric P S ^a,b   Adams, Phil ^b   Khovanskaya, Vera D ^b   Liao, Tony C ^a   Smith, Madeline E ^c   Sosik, Victoria Schwanda ^b   Williams, Kaiton ^b  

^a Communication Department ^*  (United States)

^b Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^c Technology and Social Behavior   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Non use; Technology refusal

Indexed keywords

DATA MISUSE; EXTERNAL PRESSURES; FACEBOOK; INTERNET USERS; NON-USE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOTIVATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84877941940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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