Why People Use Social Networking Sites

By Petter Bae Brandtzæg, Jan Heim. Interacción, 2009

405 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c3c88dc5045424174fe70d20a39727b129e96484

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Information Systems and Management

1. Yoojung Kim

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Jan Håvard Skjetne
2. Sejung Marina Choi
3. Petter Bae Brandtzæg
4. Marika Lüders
5. Yoojung Kim

Citations in the corpus

• Too Many Facebook “Friends”? Content Sharing and Sociability Versus the Need for Privacy in Social Network Sites (2010, background): “However, the user population has changed to include people of all ages, who have different backgrounds, experiences, and technical skills (Brandtzæg & Heim, 2009).”
• Cultural difference in motivations for using social network sites: A comparative study of American and Korean college students (2011, background): “Among these motives, social interaction was found to be the most important reason for using SNSs (Brandtzaeg & Heim, 2009).”