Two studies examined associations between social networking and depressive symptoms among youth. In Study 1, 384 participants (68% female; mean age = 20.22 years, SD = 2.90) were surveyed. In Study 2, 334 participants (62% female; M age = 19.44 years, SD = 2.05) were surveyed initially and 3 weeks later. Results indicated that depressive symptoms were associated with quality of social networkin...

Social networking is now the most popular activity on the Web (Qualman, 2009), with Facebook alone now having member numbers in excess of 500 million (Facebook, 2009). Social networking represents a major opportunity for corporations and nonprofit organizations to gain access to massive audiences with a medium that is essentially free and user-friendly. This research focused on how nonprofit or...

PURPOSE Social networking has become a popular and effective means of communication used by students in the millennial generation. Academic admissions officers are beginning to utilize social networking methods for recruitment of students. However, the dental hygiene literature has reported little information about the use of social networking for recruitment strategies. This paper describes on...

Electronic social networking continues to be widely accepted in the business world. In an effort to better understand its utilization, this study was undertaken to comprehensively examine its usage at the largest firms, the Fortune 500. Findings indicate that there are five primary and four lesser utilized social networking technologies. Of importance is that results suggest organization size i...

Amid widespread resistance to online social networking tools, their effectiveness in promoting knowledge sharing in a knowledgedriven organisation was demonstrated in the study. Usage patterns, user attitudes and perceptions regarding online social networking technologies as a professional application for knowledge sharing within the workplace were investigated. Selfadministered questionnaires ...

One of the most important means of communication today is social networking. This study was designed to provide insights into how purchase intention influenced by consumers attitude toward online advertising and brand recognition on social networking site. A survey was conducted with facebook’s users to asses attitude toward online advertising on social networking sites, brand recognition, and ...

The volume and diversity of information shared and exchanged within and across social networking sites is increasing. As a result new and challenging requirements are needed for quality manipulation of the information. An important requirement is information usability with privacy dimensions. Existing social networking sites do not provide adequate functionalities to fulfill privacy requirement...

—Recently there are emerging applications based on opportunistic mobile social networks, which are kinds of delay tolerant networks (DTNs) with social relations between the nodes. In such networking scenarios, messages are disseminated through intermittent connections in a store-carry-and-forward manner. A major advantage of the opportunistic mobile social networks includes enabling communicat...

This paper examines job searching among employed job seekers through the social networking sites. One hundred ninety survey questionnaires were distributed to employed job seekers who have used online social networking sites via the snowball sampling approach. The collected data were analysed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique via the Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS 16) compu...