Me and My 400 Friends: The Anatomy of College Students' Facebook Networks, Their Communication Patterns, and Well-Being
Me and My 400 Friends: The Anatomy of College Students' Facebook Networks, Their Communication Patterns, and Well-Being
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10.1037/a0026338
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发表时间：
2012-03-01
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4
通讯作者：
Greenfield, Patricia M.
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作者：
Manago, Adriana M.;Taylor, Tamara;Greenfield, Patricia M.
在像Facebook这样的社交网站上拥有庞大的社交网络，与在今天的新一代成年人中发展亲密关系和社会支持之间是否存在权衡？为了了解Facebook在成年过渡期的社交背景，一项在线调查被分发给一所大城市大学的大学生：参与者通过系统地抽样他们的Facebook联系人，同时查看他们的Facebook在线资料，回答有关他们关系的问题。结果证实，Facebook促进了广泛的社交网络，通过远距离关系（熟人和活动联系）不成比例地增长，同时也扩大了亲密关系和陌生人关系的数量，尽管速度较慢。那些拥有更大社交网络的人估计，他们的社交网络中有更多的联系人在观察他们的状态更新，这是一种与整个联系人列表进行公开交流的形式。状态更新的主要功能是情感表露，这是亲密关系的关键特征。这一发现表明，在社交网站环境中，亲密关系的性质发生了转变。此外，更大的网络和更大的估计受众预示着Facebook上更高的生活满意度和感知到的社会支持。这些发现强调了用户在Facebook环境中的心理重要性。研究结果还表明，社交网站帮助年轻人满足持久的人类社会心理需求，在一个地理上移动的世界中建立永久的关系——那些过去保持联系的比例较高的大学生（主要是高中朋友）认为Facebook是获得社会支持的更有用的工具。
Is there a trade-off between having large networks of social connections on social networking sites such as Facebook and the development of intimacy and social support among today's generation of emerging adults? To understand the socialization context of Facebook during the transition to adulthood, an online survey was distributed to college students at a large urban university: participants answered questions about their relationships by systematically sampling their Facebook contacts while viewing their Facebook profiles online. Results confirmed that Facebook facilitates expansive social networks that grow disproportionately through distant kinds of relationship (acquaintances and activity connections), while also expanding the number of close relationships and stranger relationships, albeit at slower rates. Those with larger networks estimated that larger numbers of contacts in their networks were observing their status updates, a form of public communication to one's entire contact list. The major function of status updates was emotional disclosure, the key feature of intimacy. This finding indicates the transformation of the nature of intimacy in the environment of a social network site. In addition, larger networks and larger estimated audiences predicted higher levels of life satisfaction and perceived social support on Facebook. These findings emphasize the psychological importance of audience in the Facebook environment. Findings also suggest that social networking sites help youth to satisfy enduring human psychosocial needs for permanent relations in a geographically mobile world-college students with higher proportions of maintained contacts from the past (primarily high school friends) perceived Facebook as a more useful tool for procuring social support.