Computer anxiety: sex, race and age
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Work, friendship, and media use for information exchange in a networked organization
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Lurker demographics: counting the silent
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Effects of communication medium on interpersonal perceptions
GROUP '01 Proceedings of the 2001 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
Communities in Cyberspace
Persistence and Lurkers in Discussion Lists: A Pilot Study
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 3 - Volume 3
The Strength and the Impact of New Media
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 1 - Volume 1
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 7 - Volume 7
Friendster and publicly articulated social networking
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 5 - Volume 05
Mediating intimacy: designing technologies to support strong-tie relationships
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Analysis of topological characteristics of huge online social networking services
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
An empirical study of the factors affecting social network service use
Computers in Human Behavior
Understanding factors affecting perceived sociability of social software
Computers in Human Behavior
Helping you to help me: exploring supportive interaction in online health community
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Rate My Expectations: How online evaluations of professors impact students' perceived control
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
Motives for Facebook use and expressing "true self" on the Internet
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation
Computers in Human Behavior
Disclosure Intention of Location-Related Information in Location-Based Social Network Services
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Malaysian Facebookers: Motives and addictive behaviours unraveled
Computers in Human Behavior
Internal and external influences on social networking site usage in Thailand
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
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The rapid growth of online social network services (SNSs) leads to new research questions. Unlike in other online communities, people in SNSs expect to gratify social-emotional needs rather than informational needs, and they are connected in a person-to-person manner which is more direct and interpersonal. The author argued that the factors influencing members' public posting in SNSs differ from those in traditional online communities. Interpersonal intimacy was postulated to influence lurking behaviors in SNSs. To investigate the relationship between intimacy level and posting frequency in SNSs, an online survey was conducted in Wallop, a SNS provided by Microsoft. Responses (102) were collected, in which the first 40 posters and the first 40 lurkers were selected for statistical analysis. The result shows significant differences exist in both verbal and affective intimacy level between lurkers and posters. The level of verbal intimacy and the level of affective intimacy are positively correlated with posting frequency. The result of discriminant analysis shows that verbal intimacy and affective intimacy are useful for discriminating posting/lurking groups of users. In addition, significant gender differences in perceived intimacy and posting behaviors were found. The result implies that people lurk in SNSs because they believe that their social-emotional needs may not be satisfied even if they post.