During the COVID-19 period, use of social network sites (SNSs) has been reported to increase. The present study aimed explore whether, on balance, their serves well-being university students positively as a source capital and entertainment, or negatively information about pandemic. It focused sample 339 students, group which is known have high risk problems. Students completed demographic form,...

BACKGROUND Social networking sites (SNSs) have become a pervasive part of modern culture, which may also affect mental health. OBJECTIVE The aim of this systematic review was to identify and summarize research examining depression and anxiety in the context of SNSs. It also aimed to identify studies that complement the assessment of mental illness with measures of well-being and examine moder...

Currently, Social Networking Sites (SNSs) expand internet users’ relationships and their businesses. Despite the huge benefits gained by SNS users, the huge amount of information exchanged by different users makes SNSs an easy target for privacy threats. The goal of this paper is to explain how information disclosure to adversaries will be minimized by using integrated algorithm. This study tak...

Social network sites (SNSs) can create new marketing opportunities by leveraging on members’ online social networks. In particular, such sites can produce a new type of product endorser – “friend endorser”, whose effectiveness remains unknown as compared to other types of product endorsers. This paper investigated the impact of three critical factors on advertising effectiveness of different ty...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of social networking sites’ (SNSs) characteristics on Egyptians’ perception and attitude towards the 25/30 uprisings, also known as the “Arab Spring”. Data were obtained from 422 Egyptian university students using SNS by means of questionnaire. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was conducted to test the research hypotheses. The study results i...

In wireless body sensor systems (WB-SNSs), sensor nodes should be energy-efficient due to battery limitation. The transmission power control (TPC) is a representative technique to reduce energy consumption in WB-SNSs. Therefore, in this paper, we summarize representative TPC algorithms such as linear, binary, and dynamic algorithms. Then, we review a general TPC model and a closed loop TPC mech...

The key objective of this chapter is to improve deeper understanding of SNSs’ usage, acceptance, and users’ actual behaviors. The authors propose that understanding the phenomenal success of Facebook could provide valuable information for developing health behavior change interventions. Using structured questionnaires, the authors collect qualitative data to understand SNSs users’ online behavi...

This study provides nascent information on university students’ needs to adopt social networking sites (SNSs) pervasively. The study drew from the uses and gratifications theory (UGT) and social influence (SI) processes framework. Relevant hypotheses were formulated to test the proposed research model. Data was collected in a survey of university undergraduates in four countries in the Americas...

With growing concerns about the dark side of social networking sties (SNSs), IS scholars pioneering technology addiction have begun to advocate for more MIS research to better conceptualize and examine problems related to technology use. In this study, we adopted the cognitive bias perspective to explain how SNS addiction distorts users’ cognition and affects their decision to continue using SN...

1. RELATED WORK The rise of social media has made Social Networking Services (SNSs) more attractive targets for spam and fraud, leading to increasingly sophisticated attacks. This trend is reflected in recent research, as papers have focused on identifying and classifying the various types of social media spam. Many of these studies employ techniques previously used to combat conventional email...