The effect of actual social ties to the actual buying in social commerce by Abdul Rahim, Sabrina, Kasiran, Mohd Khairudin, Ahmad, Mazida

“…Hence, this study is conducted to observe the effect of the actual social ties to the actual buying in social commerce by beginning the online sales with the customers whom possessed the actual social ties with the online seller outside the social media.Using a full participatory observation approach in a real social commerce environment, the researcher put herself as a real individual online seller. Using social networking site Facebook, the researcher posted the sales posting through the status updates function and tagged her Facebook friend list whom has the actual social ties with her outside the Facebook.Findings showed that, these kind of friends’ relationship have a bright potential to expand the researcher’s business based on their trustworthy to the researcher in the first place.In a long run, this strategy is seen to be able to act as the mechanism for trust formation towards the individual online sellers hence, increase the actual sales’ transactions.…”
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Comparison of Police Data on Animal Cruelty and the Perception of Animal Welfare NGOs in Hungary by Gábor Lorászkó, Szilvia Vetter, Bence Rácz, Péter Sótonyi, László Ózsvári

“…The questionnaire sent to the 116 Hungarian animal welfare non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on the publicly available lists was also posted for a short period on the social networking site of NGO activists. Among those who responded, a total of 150 identified as active participants in the animal protection work of these NGOs. …”
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Language and Love by Brian P. Jenssen, Nicola J. Gray, Kevin Harvey, Ralph J. DiClemente, Jonathan D. Klein

“…Social networking sites (SNS) provide adolescents with opportunities for content generation on a wide range of social issues, providing unique insight into the psychosocial development of adolescence. …”
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Enhancing Personalized Ads Using Interest Category Classification of SNS Users Based on Deep Neural Networks by Taekeun Hong, Jin-A Choi, Kiho Lim, Pankoo Kim

“…The classification and recommendation system for identifying social networking site (SNS) users’ interests plays a critical role in various industries, particularly advertising. …”
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Using Keystroke Dynamics in a Multi-Agent System for User Guiding in Online Social Networks by Guillem Aguado, Vicente Julián, Ana García-Fornes, Agustín Espinosa

“…In this way, we aim to prevent potential negative outcomes on social network sites (SNSs). We performed experiments in the laboratory with our private SNS Pesedia over a period of one month, so we gathered data about text messages and keystroke dynamics data, and used the datasets to train the artificial neural networks (ANNs) of the agents. …”
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Pembangunan laman web EZ-Arabic sebagai alternatif baru dalam pembelajaran Bahasa Arab peringkat sekolah rendah (Website development ez-arabic as an alternative virtual learning Ar... by Yahaya , Mohd Firdaus, Sahrir, Muhammad Sabri, Nasir, Mohd Shahrizal

“…After the completion of the prototype development, a small-scale session of trying out with users was conducted through the social networking site Facebook® for two weeks from 15 February to 1 March 2012. …”
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Using mobile Facebook as an LMS: exploring impeding factors by Gabarre, Serge, Gabarre, Cecile, Din, Rosseni, Mohd Shah, Parilah, Abdul Karim, Aida

“…The present article describes exploratory research conducted in two French language courses to identify the impeding factors of using a social networking site (SNS) on smartphones. Following the replacement of the faculty’s learning management system (LMS) by a unified platform, there were difficulties in conducting the same class activities that the researchers and students had grown accustomed to. …”
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Facebook overuse and addiction among Turkish adolescents: are ADHD and ADHD-related problems risk factors? by Hesna Gul, Esra Yurumez Solmaz, Ahmet Gul, Ozgur Oner

“…OBJECTIVE: In the last decade, using social network sites (SNSs) has grown and become an integral part of daily routine for adolescents. …”
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ARTISTIC ARCHITECTURE ON PERCEIVED USABILITY AND WILLINGNESS TO USE MOBILE COMMERCE APPLICATIONS by Tola John Odule, Ademola Olusola Adesina

“…At the same time, social network sites were used to disseminate the questionnaires to enable gathering a good number of respondents. …”
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Age differences in privacy attitudes, literacy and privacy management on Facebook by Murat Kezer, Barış Sevi, Zeynep Cemalcilar, Lemi Baruh

“…Privacy has been identified as a hot button issue in literature on Social Network Sites (SNSs). While considerable research has been conducted with teenagers and young adults, scant attention has been paid to differences among adult age groups regarding privacy management behavior. …”
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A TEI Schema for the Representation of Computer-mediated Communication by Michael Beißwenger, Maria Ermakova, Alexander Geyken, Lothar Lemnitzer, Angelika Storrer

“…The focus of the schema is on those CMC genres which are written and dialogic―such as forums, bulletin boards, chats, instant messaging, wiki and weblog discussions, microblogging on Twitter, and conversation on “social network” sites. The schema provides a representation format for the main structural features of CMC discourse as well as elements for the annotation of those units regarded as “typical” for language use on the Internet. …”
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Online health community for change: Analysis of self-disclosure and social networks of users with depression by Jiayi Shi, Zhaowei Khoo

“…BackgroundA key research question with theoretical and practical implications is to investigate the various conditions by which social network sites (SNS) may either enhance or interfere with mental well-being, given the omnipresence of SNS and their dual effects on well-being.Method/processWe study SNS’ effects on well-being by accounting for users’ personal (i.e., self-disclosure) and situational (i.e., social networks) attributes, using a mixed design of content analysis and social network analysis.Result/conclusionWe compare users’ within-person changes in self-disclosure and social networks in two phases (over half a year), drawing on Weibo Depression SuperTalk, an online community for depression, and find: ① Several network attributes strengthen social support, including network connectivity, global efficiency, degree centralization, hubs of communities, and reciprocal interactions. ② Users’ self-disclosure attributes reflect positive changes in mental well-being and increased attachment to the community. ③ Correlations exist between users’ topological and self-disclosure attributes. ④ A Poisson regression model extracts self-disclosure attributes that may affect users’ received social support, including the writing length, number of active days, informal words, adverbs, negative emotion words, biological process words, and first-person singular forms.InnovationWe combine social network analysis with content analysis, highlighting the need to understand SNS’ effects on well-being by accounting for users’ self-disclosure (content) and communication partners (social networks).Implication/contributionAuthentic user data helps to avoid recall bias commonly found in self-reported data. …”
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Broadening the ontology of threats verbalized in written communication on the Internet by Liliya Ryashitovna Komalova, Lyubov Viktorovna Kalyuzhnaya

“…The research hypothesis is tested on the basis of 68 threatening messages in the Russian language retrieved from contexts of speech communication in internet-messengers and on social network sites. We prove that the addresser (threatening person) verbalizes treats mostly in the form of punishments describing possible damage to the addressee’s (recipient’s) life and or health. …”
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Factors influencing students’ academic performance in universities: Mediated by knowledge sharing behavior by Marwa Alsarayreh, Ali Aljaafreh

“…Recently, using Social Network Sites has been rising noticeably, especially among young people (18 years-34 years) who compose more than 50% of Facebook users. …”
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Designing personal assistant software for task management using semantic web technologies and knowledge databases by Botla, Purushotham (Purushotham Shriramulu)

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Examining smartphone use among older adults in Singapore: a screenomics approach by Su, Yifei

“…Secondly, older adults exhibiting elevated levels of emotional and social well-being demonstrated a preference for engaging with positive content on their mobile phones, they also browsed social network sites and made calls more frequently. While those with lower well-being tended to allocate more phone use time to entertainment and gaming. …”
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Privacy preserving in online social networks (Facebook system) by Lin, Peizhen

“…Today, the most popular and largest social networking site is Facebook with over a billion active users worldwide. …”
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The global prevalence of social media addiction among university students: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Salari, Nader, Zarei, Hosna, Hosseinian-Far, Amin, Rasoulpoor, Shabnam, Shohaimi, Shamarina, Mohammadi, Masoud

“…Aim: The growing popularity of social network sites (SNS) and their benefits have made these networks an integral part of many university students' lives. …”

Helping others use social media: age stereotypes when estimating learner’s success by Harvey J. Ginsburg, Rebecca Cameron, Roque V. Mendez, Michael Westhoff

“…Social networking sites (SNS) include online products such as Facebook that allow users to build and maintain large interpersonal Internet networks. …”
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FOXN3 and GDNF Polymorphisms as Common Genetic Factors of Substance Use and Addictive Behaviors by Andrea Vereczkei, Csaba Barta, Anna Magi, Judit Farkas, Andrea Eisinger, Orsolya Király, Andrea Belik, Mark D. Griffiths, Anna Szekely, Mária Sasvári-Székely, Róbert Urbán, Marc N. Potenza, Rajendra D. Badgaiyan, Kenneth Blum, Zsolt Demetrovics, Eszter Kotyuk

“…Association analyses targeted 32 single-nucleotide polymorphisms, potentially addictive substances (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and other drugs), and potentially addictive or compulsive behaviors (internet use, gaming, social networking site use, gambling, exercise, hair-pulling, and eating). …”
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