Though socially anxious individuals tend to seek safety, little is known about whether this relationship depends on context, including the affordances of social networking sites (SNSs) provide anonymity and publicness, safety-seeking can be explained by impression management, privacy calculus or both. Based psychobiological model anxiety, we conducted two studies (Study 1: N = 103, Study 2: 1,1...

Previous research has indicated that exposure to traditional media (i.e., television, film, and print) predicts the likelihood of internalization of a thin ideal; however, the relationship between exposure to internet-based social media on internalization of this ideal remains less understood. Social media differ from traditional forms of media by allowing users to create and upload their own c...

The use of social networking services (SNSs) such as Facebook has explosively grown in the last few years. Users see these SNSs as useful tools to find friends and interact with them. Moreover, SNSs allow their users to share photos, videos, and express their thoughts and feelings. However, users are usually concerned about their privacy when using SNSs. This is because the public image of a su...

The present paper aims at exploring the new phenomenon of social network site (SNS) addiction and at identifying predictors of problematic SNS use. For this purpose, a scale measuring addictive behavior specifically with regard to SNS use was developed. The effects of intrinsic need satisfaction in the offline context and of SNS-specific motives on SNS addiction were tested in an online-survey ...

Social Engineering (ES) is now considered the great security threat to people and organizations. Ever since the existence of human beings, fraudulent and deceptive people have used social engineering tricks and tactics to trick victims into obeying them. There are a number of social engineering techniques that are used in information technology to compromise security defences and attack people ...

Recently, we have seen a rapid growth of social networking systems (SNSs). In most SNSs, a user can configure his privacy settings to indicate who can or cannot see his friend list. Usually, SNSs, such as LinkedIn and Google Plus, also include a feature that allows a user to query mutual friends between him and any other user he can reach using the available public search feature in SNSs. While...

Social Networking Sites (SNSs) shape the individuals’ online network structures and real life communication patterns. However integrating offline networks and lowering communication cost can increase social support as well as social stressors (overloads and conflicts). This study focused on the online network structure’s influence on both positive and negative outcomes of SNSs usage. In this pa...

Many Social Network Services (SNSs) such as Facebook and MySpace rely on a web server that enables the communication between users. As a consequence, SNSs’ users require Internet access to participate and interact with their contacts, a service that is not usually available in rural and developing areas. In this paper we introduce Goose, a distributed SNS for developing regions which provides s...

The paper presents two new correlation coefficients of simplified neutrosophic sets (SNSs) as the further extension of the correlation coefficient of single valued neutrosophic sets (SVNSs) and investigates their properties. Then a multiple attribute decision-making method is proposed based on the weighted correlation coefficients of SNSs, in which the evaluation information for alternatives wi...

An online survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. men aged 18–40 assessed trait predictors of social networking site use as well as two forms of visual self-presentation: editing one’s image in photographs posted on social networking sites (SNSs) and posting ‘‘selfies,’’ or pictures users take of themselves. We examined the Dark Triad (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psycho...