Cultural differences in the use of instant messaging in Asia and North America
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored relationships
Computers in Human Behavior
Affirming the self through online profiles: beneficial effects of social networking sites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Namibian and american cultural orientations toward facebook
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Microblog credibility perceptions: comparing the USA and China
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A cross-cultural framework for protecting user privacy in online social media
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
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A profile image is one of the most important personal attributes on social networking sites (SNSs). The current study examines whether self-presentation on SNSs is related to national culture and how forms of self-presentation differ between American and Chinese users. We accomplish this by analyzing profile images on two social networking sites, Facebook in the US and Renren in China. Our findings indicate that self-presentation is sensitive to national culture: Chinese users are more likely to customize their profile images than Americans. Our study suggests that there is a need to design social networking website features that better support profile construction for international users.