Giving too much social support: Social overload on social networking sites

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 447-464

  Maier, Christian ^a   Laumer, Sven ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b   Weitzel, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

dark side of IT; IT continuance; negative consequence of IT usage; satisfaction; social media; technostress

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SURVEYS;

DARK SIDE OF IT; IT CONTINUANCE; NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCE OF IT USAGE; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TECHNOSTRESS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84941013645     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2014.3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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