Personality, Social Network Sites, and Leisure Activities – a Conceptual Exploration
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Facebook, a social network site, has been experiencing a tremendous rate of growth, and today it has more than 500 million active users worldwide. Researchers have started to investigate use of Facebook and its possible impacts on our social lives. The purpose of this research is to explore possible relationships between personality, social network sites usage, and leisure activities. A conceptual model about the possible relationships was proposed. A survey is in the process of development and the authors hope possible findings can improve our understandings of interactions between personality, use of social network sites, and leisure activities.
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