Ubiquitous use of mobile social network services

Authors:
Shahrokh Nikou;Harry Bouwman
Affiliations:
bo Akademi University (IAMSR), Joukahaisenkatu 3, 20500 Turku, Finland;bo Akademi University (IAMSR), Joukahaisenkatu 3, 20500 Turku, Finland and Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands
Venue:
Telematics and Informatics
Year:
2014

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Abstract

Smartphones are becoming increasingly penetrated among people. Social networking is one of the most popular applications that are being widely used through smartphones. The current research aims to understand Chinese users' behaviour and identifies factors that impact intentions toward the usage of the social network services via handheld devices. By making use of Structural Equation Modelling technique based on a sample of 297 respondents, the research findings show that, technology acceptance model and its variants can only be used as an instrument to understand users' adoption behaviour. The research findings reveal that mobility in concert with perceived ease of use, use context, and critical mass in concert with social influence impact users' behavioural intention and usage significantly. Moreover, habitual behaviour of users plays a particularly important role toward the use of mobile social network services.