Social networking sites (SNSs) are important tools for college students to maintain and develop social capital. Yet, few studies on the social implications of using SNSs have focused on international students and their use of different social media platforms for social capital. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the implications of using host country and home country SNSs for social ...

Social networking sites (SNSs) have proliferated rapidly in the last few years and continue to grow in popularity. In many sectors, college students are considered a major market. This study argues that social network services play a pivotal role in a college students’ trip information search behavior. Thereby, this study’s primary objective is to identify antecedents that influence college stu...

As people increasingly integrate social network sites (SNSs) into their daily lives, they also turn to these sites for timely information following crises. To date, few studies have examined the effects of different types of motivation on participatory behaviours within SNSs following crises. In this study, self-determination theory (SDT) is applied to examine how individuals are motivated to p...

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – individuals have more opportunities than ever before to present themselves in public using social networking sites (SNSs). However, individuals tend to live segmented lives and often develop different selfpresentations depending on the audience. The combination of opportunities to present publicly and presenting different selfpresentations can have unforeseen impac...

SemanticLIFE is a Semantic Desktop system, which deals with the personal lifetime data. However, SemanticLIFE is limited to local storage, which is an isolated data repository. In the recent years, people have the tendency to share their resources, which are not only stored locally on their personal computers, but also hosted on social networking sites (SNSs). We propose and use the term ‘Socia...

Past research has suggested that social engineering poses the most significant security risk. Recent studies have suggested that social networking sites (SNSs) are the most common source of social engineering attacks. The risk of social engineering attacks in SNSs is associated with the difficulty of making accurate judgments regarding source credibility in the virtual environment of SNSs. In t...

The number of users in Social Networking Sites (SNSs) is increasing exponentially. As a result, several security and privacy problems in SNSs have appeared. Part of these problems is caused by insecure Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Therefore, the developers of SNSs should take into account the balance between security and usability aspects during the development process. This paper proposes...

In order to process the vagueness in vibration fault diagnosis of rolling bearing, a new correlation coefficient of simplified neutrosophic sets (SNSs) is proposed. Vibration signals of rolling bearings are acquired by an acceleration sensor, and a morphological filter is used to reduce the noise effect. Wavelet packet is applied to decompose the vibration signals into eight subfrequency bands,...

Social Network Site (SNS) service providers have a strong interest in knowing which factors drive different kinds of behavior in SNSs, in order to be able to foster behavior that is beneficial to their business models. Current studies neglect the factors driving Observing behavior: behavior that provides members with information within SNSs. Drawing from the Uses and Gratifications Theory, we p...

As more and more marketers incorporate social media as an integral part of the promotional mix, rigorous investigation of the determinants that impact consumers’ engagement in eWOM via social networks is becoming critical. Given the social and communal characteristics of social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, MySpace and Friendster, this study examines how social relationship factors ...