See you on Facebook: the effect of social networking on human interaction

Angelo Antoci, Fabio Sabatini and Mauro Sodini

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Abstract: This paper proposes an evolutionary framework to explore the dynamics of social interaction in an environment characterized by online networking and increasing pressure on time. The model shows how time pressure encourages the choice to develop social interactions also through online networking instead of relying exclusively on face to face encounters. Our findings suggest that the joint influence exerted by the reduction in leisure time and the new opportunities of participation offered by web-mediated communication may progressively lead a growing share of the population to adopt networking sites as an indispensable environment for the development of interpersonal relationships.

Keywords: internet; computer-mediated communication; social networking; online networks; Facebook; human interaction; social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C73 D85 O33 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12-23
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-hrm, nep-ict, nep-mkt, nep-net and nep-soc
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