Unfriending on facebook: Context collapse and unfriending behaviors

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1676-1685

  Sibona, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

FACEBOOK; GENERAL POPULATION; HIGH SCHOOL; OFFLINE; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES( SNS); WORK-RELATED;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84902295976     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.214     Document Type: Conference Paper

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