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...e friends [9]. Ellison and colleagues show that students who are active on Facebook feel higher levels of both forms of social capital, and the effects are greater for students with lower self-esteem =-=[4,15]-=-. Heavy users of SNS also exhibit greater social trust and civic participation [16]. These studies use the Facebook Intensity Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for ...

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...ollaboration. Subjective well-being has been shown to be an important predictor of student perceptions of social capital in past studies of Facebook use (Ellison et al. 2007; Ellison et al. in press; =-=Steinfield et al. 2008-=-). People with higher self-esteem may be more likely to approach classmates they may not know well, or to form groups with others, when seeking information about the class. Ellison et al. (2007) note ...

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...id schemes, or to celebrate drugs or gangs. These views are consistent with some reports of parents’ views of social networking sites [17,19]. However, the dilemma of being “simultaneously cool to their peers and acceptable to their parents” [7, p. 133] is not so important if, as in the case of homeless young people, the bond between parent and child is limited or non-existent. Appeals, in contrast, to the possible psycho-social and developmental benefits of social networking sites [30] or to benefits of many weak ties amongst acquaintances for learning, information access, and social capital [29] were largely not made. The use of MySpace, in short, seemed to be perceived to reinforce a “street life” identity, making it even more difficult to leave the street. Research concerning CHI 2010: HCI For All April 10–15, 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA 1296 online identity presentation of emerging adults and the overlap of online and offline friends shows these intuitions to be plausible [30]. In the New Tech for Youth Sessions we see Spradley’s fundamental difference between homelessness as a legitimate way of being and homeless as a problem in need of correction. Young people, seeking and reflecting...

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...ry about others via the profile. In light of these features, a number of studies have tried to explicate the relationship between Facebook use and social capital outcomes. Previous research [10] [11] =-=[25]-=- has established a positive relationship between intensity of Facebook use and localized (i.e., within the university community) measures of both bridging and bonding social capital. Early on in Faceb...

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...um of communication, and social applications associated with Web 2.0 may be contributing to the formation of “social capital” (Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2007; Mathwick, Wiertz, & De Ruyter, 2008; =-=Steinfield, Ellison, & Lampe, 2008-=-). Of course, these differing viewpoints represent the two extreme perspectives on the question of Facebook’s positive versus negative effects: The reality is likely more complex and nuanced. For exam...

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...2007). Other specific Internet activities, including blogging and the use of social networking services 10(e.g., Facebook), have also been associated with having more diverse networks (Marlow, 2005; =-=Steinfield, Ellison, & Lampe, 2008-=-). It is incorrect to maintain that the Internet benefits distant relationships at the expense of local ties. The Internet affords personal connections at extreme distances but also provides the oppor...

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...ed to simultaneous, face-to-face, interactions. Experiments found that the depth of a friendship can be significantly improved by computer-mediated communication. Apparently, by way of online relationships individuals become far better in expressing their true selves and feelings (Ellison et al. 2007; Park et al. 2009b; Burke et al. 2010; Sheldon 2010; Burke and Settles 2011). Interactions through the Internet can foster the social inclusion of individuals suffering from social anxiety, i.e. anxiety about social situations, interactions with others, and being evaluated by others (Caplan 2007; Steinfield et al. 2008). Thanks to new tools such as Facebook messages and Flickr mails, many people have regained the habit of writing letters. Psychological studies claim this form of interaction can lead to an improvement in the quality of relationships. Letters have in fact been found to have the property of slowing the communication down, thus giving people more time and reasons to process their feelings, to put a greater effort into understanding others’ expectations, and to think in depth before they respond (Kobayashi and Ikeda 2008; Miyata and Kobayashi 2008; Steinfield et al. 2008). In addition to the pres...

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...W ’13, February 23–27, 2013, San Antonio, Texas, USA.sCopyright 2013 ACM 978-1-4503-1331-5/13/02...$15.00.sLampe’s studies of how American college students benefitsfrom social connections on Facebook =-=[12, 43]-=- what kinds ofsconnections are most useful [13], how SNS help youngspeople transition to college, and explorations of howsstudents use Facebook to support academic collaborationss[26]. Privacy prefere...

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...relied on the sensing of extreme changes in Twitter. To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents the first of its kind study identifying predictors of postpartum depression based on new mothers’ use of Facebook. Social Media/Networks in Health and Wellness Beyond PPD, researchers have been increasingly interested in understanding how social media activities can be used to infer the wellbeing of people, and conditions and symptoms related to diseases [36] and disease contagion, e.g., flu [48]. Facebook use has been shown to help those with lower selfesteem to attain higher social capital [47]. Moreno et al., [24] demonstrated that status updates on Facebook could reveal symptoms of major depressive episodes, while Park et al. [32] found differences in the perception of Twitter use between depressed and non-depressed users—the former found value in Twitter due to the ability to garner social awareness and engage in emotional interaction. On similar lines, De Choudhury et al. [6] examined year-long Twitter postings of individuals suffering from major depressive disorder to build statistical models that predict the future occurrence of depression. A common thread in this research is ...