Make new friends or keep the old: Gender and personality differences in social networking use

By Nicole L. Muscanell, Rosanna E. Guadagno. Computers in Human Behavior, 2012

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Exploring the Relationships Between Different Types of Facebook Use, Perceived Online Social Support, and Adolescents’ Depressed Mood (2016, background): “Given that girls are more likely than boys to use SNS to communicate with the existing friends (e.g., Bonetti et al., 2010; Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012), we may expect that girls who actively use Facebook will also perceive higher levels of online social support than boys.”
A Meta-Analysis of Social Networking Online and Social Capital (2016, background): “Men tend to use SNSs to start new relationships, whereas women tend to use them to maintain current networks (Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012).”
When stereotypes meet robots: The double-edge sword of robot gender and personality in human-robot interaction (2014, background): “Among various social traits, gender and personality have been found to be important for interpersonal relationships, affecting relationship management (Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012) and evoking social stereotypes (Glick, 1991; Glick, Zion, & Nelson, 1988).”
Demographic differences in perceived benefits from gamification (2014, background): “…in the currently hugely popular online contexts with social features (e.g., social networks), women have been indicated to be more socially motivated users of the services, while men concentrate more on pragmatic uses (Haferkamp, Eimler, Papadakis, & Kruck, 2012; Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012).”
Ladies First: Analyzing Gender Roles and Behaviors in Pinterest (2013, neutral): “Related studies on other social networks reported differences in users motivations and usage of the network (Haferkamp et al. 2012; Mazman and Usluel 2011; Muscanell and Guadagno 2012; Joinson 2008).”
Cultural differences in social networking site use: A comparative study of China and the United States (2013, background): “Other findings indicate that US females use their time online for social interaction purposes and are more likely to engage in behaviors that promote relationship maintenance than are US males (Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012).”
Understanding lurkers in online communities: A literature review (2014, background): “Members with a higher score of extraversion were more active and joined significantly more groups in the online community (Amichai-Hamburger & Vinitzky, 2010; Moore & McElroy, 2012; Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012; Ross et al., 2009).”
Trends in U.S. Adolescents’ media use, 1976–2016: The rise of digital media, the decline of TV, and the (near) demise of print. (2019, background): “Although a few studies have explored how digital media use differs by gender (Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012), race/ethnicity (Campos-Castillo, 2015), and socioeconomic status (SES; Jackson et al., 2008), few studies have explored whether these variables moderate cohort/time period differences in…”
Social Influence Online: The Impact of Social Validation and Likability on Compliance (2013, background): “It is important to note that it is an open empirical question as to whether these results would generalize to other more interactive online technologies such as Facebook (see Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012, for a description of how this generation uses social networking sites).”
The relationships among the Big Five Personality factors, self-esteem, narcissism, and sensation-seeking to Chinese University students' uses of social networking sites (SNSs) (2012, background): “Moreover, men are more likely to spend their online time engaged in task-focused activities (Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012) and to use social networking sites for dating (Raacke & Bonds-Raacke, 2008).”
Social media engagement: What motivates user participation and consumption on YouTube? (2017, background): “Gender differences and social media have been keenly researched (Hargittai, 2007; McAndrew & Jeong, 2012; Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012; Raacke & Bonds-Raacke, 2008).”
Gender differences in mediated communication: Women connect more than do men (2013, background): “These results support previous research that women are using social networking sites at higher rates than men (e.g., Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012).”
Uses and Gratifications of digital photo sharing on Facebook (2016, positive): “Older people engage mostly in online family activity (Muscanell & Guadagno, 2012), while the younger ones engage with Facebook to pass the time (Hollenbaugh & Ferris, 2014).”