Modifying Adoption Research for Mobile Internet Service Adoption: Cross-Disciplinary Interactions
HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 3 - Volume 3
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Distinguishing addiction and high engagement in the context of online game playing
Computers in Human Behavior
Unwillingness-to-communicate and college students' motives in SMS mobile messaging
Telematics and Informatics
Relationship between the level of intimacy and lurking in online social network services
Computers in Human Behavior
Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use
Computers in Human Behavior
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Communities and technologies
Face off: Implications of visual cues on initiating friendship on Facebook
Computers in Human Behavior
Motivations to participate in online communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Facebook® and academic performance
Computers in Human Behavior
Facebook as a toolkit: A uses and gratification approach to unbundling feature use
Computers in Human Behavior
A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage
Computers in Human Behavior
Self-disclosure and student satisfaction with Facebook
Computers in Human Behavior
Motives for Facebook use and expressing "true self" on the Internet
Computers in Human Behavior
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Malaysians were reported to have the most number of Facebook friends, spend more time on Facebook and might be addicted to Facebook as well. This paper explored Facebook usage pattern, motivations and psychological/behavioural factors affecting the users. A focus group study was first conducted to explore motives to use Facebook and symptoms related to excessive Facebook usage. The themes emerging from this were then used in addition to Uses and Gratifications theory and Brown's Addiction framework to further explore Facebook usage pattern, motivations and behavioural issues among a large group of students. Results show that Malaysian students use Facebook actively, similar to other studies done worldwide. Factor analyses yielded five motives to use Facebook: Social Networking, Psychological Benefits, Entertainment, Self Presentation and Skill Enhancement. As for the behavioural symptoms, Salience, Loss of Control, Withdrawal and Relapse and Reinstatement emerged as the four main symptoms. These results show that in general Malaysian students use Facebook for similar motives as reported in literature. However, it is interesting to note that they also exhibited behavioural symptoms, such as Salience, Loss of Control, Withdrawal and Relapse and Reinstatement due to excessive Facebook usage.