“…15 This view asserts that it is the network that promotes and legitimates both information and network members, which, from this standpoint, are instrumental in receiving and forwarding such information (Haythornthwaite, 1996). This is a structural outlook that is emphasized by some realms of literature that argue that nodes or groups of nodes of a network can be replaced with no information flow breakdown (Sarr, Missaoui, & Lalande, 2012). However, this seems to be an incomplete view when considering the dimension of the psychological characteristics (personal attributes) of the actors in a social network, as the results presented in this work seems to show.…”