Dating on the net: teens and the rise of “pure” relationships
Cybersociety 2.0
The Psychology of the Internet
The Psychology of the Internet
Information revelation and privacy in online social networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
Memory and working-with-memory: A component process model based on modules and central systems
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The impact of emotionality and self-disclosure on online dating versus traditional dating
Computers in Human Behavior
Evolutionary cyber-psychology: Applying an evolutionary framework to Internet behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
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Despite previous research demonstrating that online self-disclosure occurs in an accelerated manner compared to offline interactions, little is known about the content of online disclosures. This study highlights a number of issues that arise when exploring the self-disclosure of different types of personal information in initial general online communications. Forty-eight students and 48 non-students completed a purpose-developed attitude towards online relationship formation questionnaire and Magno's (2009) self-disclosure for beliefs, relationships, personal matters, interests and intimate feelings questionnaire. Findings suggest that people are more likely to self-disclose information online the more positive is their attitude towards forming relationships online. Moreover, this self-disclosure initially occurs only for superficial self-information relating to personal matters and interests, implying that it is the quantity of online exchanges that is enhanced rather than the quality thereof. These findings raise a number of issues relating to type of self-information disclosed online, as well as intent, Internet arena, social identity, privacy, trust, and general methodological issues that would benefit from further experimental exploration. Implications of the findings for future research to explore categorical self-disclosure online within an existing theoretical framework of self-categorisation and self-identity theory as well as the self-memory-system model of autobiographical memory are discussed.