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A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing

by: Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield
In CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work (2006), pp. 167-170.

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Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people in their offline communities or to learn more about people they initially meet offline. Our data suggest that users are largely employing Facebook to learn more about people they meet offline, and are less likely to use the site to initiate new connections.

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