Too Much of a Good Thing? The Relationship Between Number of Friends and Interpersonal Impressions on Facebook

By Stephanie Tom Tong, Brandon Van Der Heide, Lindsey Langwell, Joseph B. Walther. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2008

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Connection strategies: Social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices (2011, background): “Corresponding author: Nicole B. Ellison, 408 Communication Arts & Sciences Bldg., Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Email: nellison@msu.edu”
Show me your friends and I will tell you what type of person you are: How one's profile, number of friends, and type of friends influence impression formation on social network sites (2010, background): “Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Show me your friends and I will tell you what type of person you are: How one’s profile, number of friends, and type of friends influence impression formation on social network sites”
Self-Generated Versus Other-Generated Statements and Impressions in Computer-Mediated Communication (2009, background): “…found that observers can make extraversion judgments from personal Web pages (Vazire & gosling, 2004), more recent research finds that extraversion judgments are less sensitive to variations in Facebook pages, compared to attractiveness judgments (Tong, Van Der Heide, Langwell, & Walther, 2008).”
Explicating the ‘like’ on Facebook brand pages: The effect of intensity of Facebook use, number of overall ‘likes’, and number of friends' ‘likes’ on consumers' brand outcomes (2016, methodology): “Following on prior online impression formation research conducted on Facebook personal profiles (e.g. Tong et al. 2008; Walther et al. 2008), we propose that there would be an attributing effect of brand characteristics onto Facebook brand pages based on the number of overall ‘likes’ and friends’…”
Following Celebrities’ Tweets About Brands: The Impact of Twitter-Based Electronic Word-of-Mouth on Consumers’ Source Credibility Perception, Buying Intention, and Social Identification With Celebrities (2014, background): “Computer-mediated communication (CMC) scholars (e.g., Tong et al. 2008; Utz 2010) have identified three sources of information or cues that SNS profiles contain: self, other, and system.”
Young people's use of online social networking sites – a uses and gratifications perspective (2010, methodology): “213) as “public displays of connection” and is often used to provide a real statement about who the person is and the company they keep (Tong et al., 2008; Liu, 2008; Boyd, 2007).”
PREDICTORS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENTIATED PRACTICES ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES (2010, background): “For example, researchers have looked at how Facebook users’ friendship networks may affect their life experiences (e.g. Lewis et al. 2008; Tong et al. 2008; Seder & Oishi 2009).”
Facebook Psychology: Popular Questions Answered by Research (2012, background): “As one would expect, and in line with the “rich get richer” theory, extraversion is positively correlated to network size (Acar, 2008) and, accordingly, those with moderately high numbers of friends are perceived by others to be significantly more extraverted than those with few friends Tom Tong, Va”
“They Are Happier and Having Better Lives than I Am”: The Impact of Using Facebook on Perceptions of Others' Lives (2012, neutral): “Previous studies found that comments posted by users’ Facebook friends, 13 as well as the number of Facebook friends 22 and the attractiveness of Facebook friends, 13 affect others’ impression of users’ popularity or social attractiveness.”