The Role of Friends’ Appearance and Behavior on Evaluations of Individuals on Facebook: Are We Known by the Company We Keep?

By Joseph B. Walther, Brandon Van Der Heide, Sang-Yeon Kim, David Keith Westerman, Stephanie Tom Tong. 2008

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship (2007, neutral): “( Walther, Van Der Heide, Kim, & Westerman, in press ).”
The Relationship Between Facebook and the Well-Being of Undergraduate College Students (2011, positive): “20 Finally, Buffardi and Campbell supported a link between narcissism and increased social activity on Facebook (e.g., number of friends, groups, and wall posts), whether narcissism was self-reported or was rated by proﬁle viewers.”
Young people's use of online social networking sites – a uses and gratifications perspective (2010, background): “…on various aspects of SNSs such as the nature of connecting with friends on these sites (Boyd and Ellison, 2008; Liu, 2008; Tong et al., 2008; Walther et al., 2008; Boyd, 2007), and identity creation and Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing Vol. 4 No. 1, 2010 pp. 46-58 q Emerald…”
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’…”
“Friending” Professors, Parents and Bosses: A Facebook Connection Conundrum (2011, background): “Finally, students should also be warned that others might judge them based on the friends they keep ( Walther, Van Der Heide, Kim, Westerman, & Tong, 2008 ).”
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, methodology): “In the domain of physical attractiveness, assimilation effects of physical attractiveness of friends to physical attractiveness of the target have been found (Walther et al., 2008).”
Self-Presentation 2.0: Narcissism and Self-Esteem on Facebook (2010, neutral): “While these sites do indeed serve a communicative purpose among friends, colleagues, and family, other registered users can initiate requests to be friends, and one’s social network often snowballs rapidly across institutions in this fashion.(11) Second, social-networking Web pages are highly contro”
Online Impression Management: Personality Traits and Concerns for Secondary Goals as Predictors of Self-Presentation Tactics on Facebook (2011, background): “For instance, the physical attractiveness of one’s Facebook friends and comments made by those friends were found to be related to ratings of the profile owner’s physical and social attractiveness, as well his or her credibility (Walther et al., 2008).”