Compared to other appointment methods in public hospitals, registering through the Internet or utilizing e-appointments, or registering online as an outpatient, can provide more information to the user. This research investigated the integration of unified theory of the acceptance and use of technology and information system quality in determining factors that influence the adoption of e-appointments by patients, based on the requirements of food safety consultation in Taiwan. Empirical data from 369 valid samples were assessed using Partial Least Squares (PLS). The key findings of this study indicated that patients’ acceptance of e-appointments was influenced by users’ perceptions (i.e., performance expectancy and facilitating conditions), along with information quality and service quality. The practical and academic implications are provided for future practitioners and scholars, and to enhance patients’ usage of e-appointments in their healthcare activities.

Virtual community websites are one of the applications that provide a platform for people with common interests to extend their social relations in social media. With the proliferation of food safety incidents in recent years, social media has often been a major channel for public engagement in risk communication because of its social networking and immediate interaction. To understand the users’ needs and satisfaction, this study proposed a model to develop and evaluate the antecedents of continuance intention toward food safety information from social media. Based on the questionnaire collected from 289 Facebook users, this study assessed the integrated model of the expectation-confirmation theory and technology acceptance model with technology readiness as moderator. The results showed that the perceived ease-of-use, usefulness, and confirmation indirectly affected social media continuance usage intention through satisfaction; perceived ease-of-use, usefulness, and satisfaction were the direct determinants that affected the users’ social media continuance intention. Furthermore, positive technology readiness had significant effects on the relationship between the perceived ease-of-use, usefulness, confirmation, satisfaction, and continuance intention toward food safety information. This study contributes some important suggestions and managerial implications for food safety promotion providers, practitioners, and academics in the food industry, and social media environment.

In the beginning, telecommunications started from telegraph and television, and then entered the Internet era, As the Internet evolves to Web 2.0, online communities are emerging where users can communicate with each other, start socializing online by interacting with others through video sharing sites, blogs, Facebook and more. Smartphones, PCs allow users to communicate via social media with anyone from anywhere in the world who is close to them, get more followers, shares, likes, interactions and love counts, users get the social aspect of needs and identity, Users with a large number of fans can engage in mutually beneficial behavior with manufacturers and social media platforms, For example, more Openness to Experience people create through applications such as retouching and video editing, or if a more extroverted person uses more interactive applications such as video recording or live streaming applications, To attract more people to join the platform for exchange. Social media is now used by nearly half of the world's population, and the number of users is growing, and most people have smartphones, Social media has become part of people's daily lives, common social media platforms are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, etc. The different personality traits of the users, observing the Persistence of Different Personality Traits in Social Media through Self-Disclosure, find social media to retain and attract more people to operate and use social platforms. 464 valid samples were collected for this study, Analysis using SmartPLS 3, Learn that Extraversion, Openness to Experience and Neuroticism are positively significant for Self-Disclosure, analyzing personality traits after Self-Disclosure, continued use is intended to have a positive and significant impact, Users Increase Continuity of Social Media Use from Self-Disclosure, give reference to future research directions.

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Since the development of the Internet jumped quickly, the user can perform a variety of social media information and communicate via computers, mobile phones and other smart devices. Social media can be presented in many different forms, including text, images, music and videos. Under the high popularity of social media usage, users will share information on community self-media platforms, including personal ideas, feelings and experiences. However, social media is one of the sides of a virtual network that allows users to bring convenient, instant, etc. But they also bring negative factors can’t be predicted for users, such as: lack of privacy controls, social media into hidden problems. Due to these reasons, users can cause by long-term excessive use of social media, and make themselves feel fatigue social of psychology. The study investigates whether the negative factors will affect users of social media for social impact of fatigue, use Google questionnaires to collect samples of the web results. To sum up, the conclusion of the study showed that most of the negative factors of social media are social media users will feel social fatigue.