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Who interacts on the Web?: The intersection of users' personality and social media use

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While extraverted men and women were both likely to be more frequent users of social media tools, only the men with greater degrees of emotional instability were more regular users, and being open to new experiences emerged as an important personality predictor ofsocial media use for the more mature segment of the sample.
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This article is published in Computers in Human Behavior.The article was published on 2010-03-01. It has received 1752 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social relation & Big Five personality traits.

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A New Dimension of Health Care: Systematic Review of the Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Social Media for Health Communication

TL;DR: Social media brings a new dimension to health care as it offers a medium to be used by the public, patients, and health professionals to communicate about health issues with the possibility of potentially improving health outcomes.
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Why people use social networking sites: An empirical study integrating network externalities and motivation theory

TL;DR: It is shown that enjoyment is the most influential factor in people's continued use of SNS, followed by number of peers, and usefulness, and the findings suggest that gender difference also produces different influences.
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Social Media Use for News and Individuals' Social Capital, Civic Engagement and Political Participation

TL;DR: Results show that after controlling for demographic variables, traditional media use offline and online, political constructs (knowledge and efficacy), and frequency and size of political discussion networks, seeking information via social network sites is a positive and significant predictor of people's social capital and civic and political participatory behaviors, online and offline.
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Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review of the Psychological Literature

TL;DR: The findings indicate that SNSs are predominantly used for social purposes, mostly related to the maintenance of established offline networks, and extraverts appear to use social networking sites for social enhancement, whereas introverts use it for social compensation.
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Development of a Facebook Addiction Scale.

TL;DR: The Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale was constructed and administered to 423 students together with several other standardized self-report scales, and was positively related to Neuroticism and Extraversion, and negatively related to Conscientiousness.
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The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites

TL;DR: Facebook usage was found to interact with measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction.
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