2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Who Are Seeking Friends? The Portrait of Stranger-Seeker in Social Network Sites
verfasst von : Xitong Yue, Yuanyuan Shi, Huajian Cai
Erschienen in: Online Communities and Social Computing
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We aim to understand the stranger seeking behaviors on Social Network Sites (SNSs) and learn about the characteristics of these people who frequently seek strangers (stranger-seeker). By conducting two surveys, we obtain an overall acknowledgement of stranger seeking behavior and give a portrait of stranger-seekers in social network sites. We find: stranger-seekers are extroversive, narcissism, in poor family relationship, motivated to seek belongingness, but without a larger proportion of strange friends. This finding may contribute to personal attractiveness oriented online product design.