Internet Use and Well-Being Among College Students: Beyond Frequency of Use

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Too much face and not enough books: The relationship between multiple indices of Facebook use and academic performance (2012, background): “…other research on Internet activities showing that how technologies are used is more important in predicting outcomes than time spent on the technology (Cotten, 2008; Ellison et al., 2011; Gordon et al., 2007; Junco & Cotten, 2010; Junco et al., 2011; Morgan & Cotten, 2003; Pempek et al., 2009).”
The relationship between frequency of Facebook use, participation in Facebook activities, and student engagement (2012, background): “This is congruent with research on general uses of the Internet that shows that online activities are either as important or more important than time spent when predicting outcomes (Cotten, 2008; Ellison et al., 2011; Gordon et al., 2007; Junco, Heiberger et al., 2010; Morgan & Cotten, 2003).”
The Relationships among Attachment Style, Personality Traits, Interpersonal Competency, and Facebook Use (2012, background): “Similarly, developmental processes associated with emerging adulthood such as identity formation (Peluchette & Karl, 2010) and social behavior (Gordon et al., 2007) often manifest online through SNS such as Facebook.”