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

@inproceedings{citeulike:1090756, abstract = {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.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Lampe, Cliff and Ellison, Nicole and Steinfield, Charles}, booktitle = {CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work}, citeulike-article-id = {1090756}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1180901}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180901}, doi = {10.1145/1180875.1180901}, isbn = {1-59593-249-6}, keywords = {socialsoftware}, location = {Banff, Alberta, Canada}, pages = {167--170}, posted-at = {2007-04-06 17:06:05}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180901}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1090756 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1090756 N2 - 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. CY - Banff, Alberta, Canada SN - 1-59593-249-6 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 170 TI - A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing PB - ACM T2 - CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work SP - 167 KW - socialsoftware AU - Lampe, Cliff AU - Ellison, Nicole AU - Steinfield, Charles PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180901 ER -