Too Many Facebook “Friends”? Content Sharing and Sociability Versus the Need for Privacy in Social Network Sites

By Petter Bae Brandtzæg, Marika Lüders, Jan Håvard Skjetne. International journal of human computer interactions, 2010

417 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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In Information Systems and Management

1. J. V. van Dijk
2. A. V. van Deursen
3. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
4. Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
5. Pei-Luen Patrick Rau
6. Keng Leng Siau
7. Aneta Przepiórka
8. Gavriel Salvendy

In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. V. van Dijk
2. Yoon Hyung Choi
3. A. V. van Deursen
4. E. van Laar
5. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
6. Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
7. Robin I. M. Dunbar
8. Jos de Haan

Citations in the corpus

• Unspeaking on Facebook? Testing network effects on self-censorship of political expressions in social network sites (2015, background): “Brandtzaeg et al. (2010) and Das and Kramer’s (2013) findings on the positive association between network size and self-censoring behaviors are contradictory to the conventional understanding (offline basis) that a smaller social network is usually more cohesive thus produces stronger normative…”
• Self‐Disclosure in Social Media: Extending the Functional Approach to Disclosure Motivations and Characteristics on Social Network Sites (2014, background): “Interestingly, work by Brandtzaeg, Lüders, and Skjetne (2010) has highlighted the conflict users experience between the want to share content and be sociable, and on the other hand, concerns of surveillance and the need for privacy, which suggests multiple motivations involved in self-disclosure…”
• Facebook Psychology: Popular Questions Answered by Research (2012, background): “Specifically, Facebook elicits higher levels of general informationsharing (Brandtzæg et al., 2010) than the “real” (physical) world, as well as greater information disclosures, that is, more communication of personal or sensitive information (Christofides et al.”
• Seven HCI Grand Challenges (2019, background): “Privacy and content sharing (and therefore sociability) constitute two conflicting fundamental features of OSNs, which however need to be perfectly joined, a challenge that designers of OSNs have to master (Brandtzæg, Lüders, & Skjetne, 2010).”
• Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size of offline social networks? (2016, background): “It is not yet entirely clear what has driven this, but the fact that Facebook is too open to view by others seems to have been especially important [74,75].”
• Determinants of 21st-Century Skills and 21st-Century Digital Skills for Workers: A Systematic Literature Review (2020, background): “Online content-sharing activities range from sharing status updates, posts, photos, and videos to writing comments and blogs (Brandtzæg et al., 2010).”
• Self-presentation styles, privacy, and loneliness as predictors of Facebook use in young people (2016, methodology): “According to Brandtzæg et al. (2010) entertainment and leisure is one of these motives.”