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A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing

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Cliff Lampe,

Nicole Ellison,

Charles SteinfieldAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Pages 167 - 170

https://doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180901

Published: 04 November 2006 Publication History

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Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people in their offline communities or to learn more about people they initially meet offline. Our data suggest that users are largely employing Facebook to learn more about people they meet offline, and are less likely to use the site to initiate new connections.

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DOI:10.1145/1180875

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