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Social Networking Sites and Our Lives

Issue Lab (Candid)Published 6 June 2011
Keith N. Hampton, Kristen Purcell, Lauren Sessions Goulet, Lee Rainie
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Abstract

Examines the characteristics of social networking site users, their online activities, and their friendships, sense of trust, social support, perspectives, and civic engagement by site and compared with those of non-users and users of other technologies.