Social media technologies have grown from the personal recreation tools of college students to systems that can benefit business. In addition to using social networking to market, sell, and manage external stakeholder relationships, some organizations are leveraging social networking’s communication and collaboration tools to improve internal operations. However, implementing social networking ...

This research aims to explain users’ discontinuous usage behavior in social network context. With system features increasing, information flooding and personal network expanding of SNSs, users begin to emerge social network fatigue, and ultimately express discontinuous usage intention. To explain this phenomenon, we develop a research model based on a cognition-affection-conation framework. Thi...

Despite recent media reports regarding the negative consequences of disclosing information on social network sites (SNSs), young adults are generally thought to be unconcerned about the potential costs of this. Given the widespread use and potential dangers associated with online communication, an understanding of SNSs features and how people are using these sites is critical to educating users...

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the role Social Network Sites (SNSs) in context English as Second Language (ESL) and Foreign (EFL) teaching learning. It examines definitions potential applications SNSs, with specific focus on Facebook YouTube. The discusses educational instructional implementations these well challenges drawbacks faced by both teachers students when utilizing them...

Purpose This study aimed to investigate positive associations between three main motivations (social interaction, information and entertainment) for the use of social network sites (SNSs) users' well-being, as well multiple mediating effects perceived support, honest self-presentation. Design/methodology/approach A sample 759 active users SNSs (WeChat Moments, Qzone Weibo) aged 14–43 years was ...

While a number of previous studies examined the impacts social networking sites (SNSs) on young people’s well-being, they usually focused single platform without considering increasing use multiple media platforms. In addition, only few have explored gender differences, and empirical evidence outside Western culture is still lacking. To this end, present study explores how two different types (...

Background Social networking services (SNSs) are widely used as communicative tools for a variety of purposes. SNSs rely on the users' individual activities associated with some cost and effort, and thus it is not known why users voluntarily continue to participate in SNSs. Because the structures of SNSs are similar to that of the public goods (PG) game, some studies have focused on why volunta...

Introduction Following the theoretical frameworks of the dual-factor model of Facebook use and the Self Determination Theory, the present study hypothesizes that the satisfaction of unmet needs through Social Networking Sites (SNSs) may represent a pathway towards problematic use of Internet communicative services (GPIU) for socially anxious people. Methods Four hundred undergraduate students...

Organizations seem to be split on their policies governing social networking sites (SNSs) in the workplace. Recent surveys indicated that while 54% of organizations currently ban SNSs (i.e., Facebook and Twitter) at work (Lenhart 2009) 84% of organizations will be evaluating the use of SNSs at work in the next 24 months (Gould 2009). As such, the purpose of this study is to investigate the impl...

Oncogene-induced DNA replication stress is thought to drive genomic instability in cancer. In particular, replication stress can explain the high prevalence of focal genomic deletions mapping within very large genes in human tumors. However, the origin of single-nucleotide substitutions (SNS) in nonfamilial cancers is strongly debated. Some argue that cancers have a mutator phenotype, whereas o...