The reciprocal effects of social network site use and the disposition for self-disclosure: A longitudinal study

Self-disclosure topic model for Twitter conversations

“…Social support is a major motivation for active usage of social networks services (SNS), and there are findings that show self-disclosure on SNS has a positive longitudinal effect on future SNS use (Trepte and Reinecke, 2013;Ledbetter et al, 2011). While these previous studies focused on small, qualitative studies, we conduct a large-scale, machine learning driven study to approach the question of self-disclosure behavior and SNS use.…”

“…One positive outcome of self-disclosure is social support from others (Wills, 1985;Derlega et al, 1993), shown also in online social networks (OSN) such as Twitter ). Receiving social support would then lead the user to be more active on OSN (Steinfield et al, 2008;Trepte and Reinecke, 2013). In this paper, we seek to understand this important social behavior using a large-scale Twitter conversation data, automatically classifying the level of self-disclosure using machine learning and correlating the patterns with subsequent OSN usage.…”

“…Classifying self-disclosure level: Prior work on quantitatively analyzing self-disclosure has relied on user surveys (Trepte and Reinecke, 2013;Ledbetter et al, 2011) or human annotation (Barak and Gluck-Ofri, 2007). These methods consume much time and effort, so they are not suitable for large-scale studies.…”

E-Participation: Social Capital and the Internet

“…Authors have claimed that SNSs support the strengthening of bonding and bridging social capital (Lee, 2013;Steinfield et al, 2008), children's social activities (Bauernschuster et al, 2011) as well as the social integration and well-being of the elderly (Näsi et al, 2012;Russel et al, 2008). SNSs may allow the crystallization of weak or latent ties which might otherwise remain ephemeral (Ellison et al, 2007;Haythornthwaite 2005), help users cope with social anxiety and bouts of negativity and loneliness (Clayton et al, 2013;Grieve et al, 2013;Morahan-Martin and Schumaker, 2003), boost teenagers' self-esteem by encouraging them to relate to their peers (Cheung et al, 2010;Ellison et al, 2011;Trepte and Reinecke, 2013), promote civic engagement and political participation (Gil de Zuniga, 2012;Kittilson & Dalton, 2011;Gil de Zuniga 2012;Zhang et al, 2010), stimulate social learning and improve cognitive skills (Alloway et al, 2013;Burke et al, 2011), enhance social trust (Valenzuela et al, 2009) and help the promotion of collective actions (Chu and Tang, 2005) 5 .…”

A Three-way Interaction Model of Information Withholding: Investigating the Role of Information Sensitivity, Prevention Focus, and Interdependent Self-Construal

“…However, because of the increasing concerns raised by negative factors such as privacy issues, users become more reluctant to disclose their personal information in SNSs (Chang & Heo, 2014), which can be viewed as a manifestation of information withholding. To date, a burgeoning body of studies have identified factors that contribute to information disclosure in SNSs, whose different research models are based on theories of uses and gratification (Chang & Heo, 2014;Hollenbaugh & Ferris, 2014), social contract (Chang & Heo, 2014), privacy calculus (Krasnova, Spiekermann, Koroleva, & Hildebrand, 2010; Min & Kim, 2015), trust (Taddei & Contena, 2013), social capital (Trepte & Reinecke, 2013), Big Five personality (Chen, Widjaja, & Yen, 2015), or SNS flow (Kwak, Choi, & Lee, 2014). However, few studies have investigated the determinants of information withholding by SNS users.…”