Exploring the Usefulness of Social Networking Websites: a Multidimensional Model

Usage of Facebook by University Students in Romania and Lithuania: A Comparative Study

“…In 2013, a 7 country FB comparative analysis was carried out [10]. Romanian and Lithuanian students participated in the research.…”

“…Last but not least, Facebook is favoring the offline university education of students [4,5,14,16,13]. The usage of social networking websites in general [18,3,10] and Facebook, in particular [17,16] has been extensively studied. However, there is still little data available regarding the variations across countries, towns, faculty profile, and gender.…”

Bounded Confidence-based Opinion Formation for Opinion Leaders and Opinion Followers on Social Networks

“…Recently great attention has been paid to social network science, which concerns the influence of the networking structure and the social behavior of individuals in the networks. The references [1][2][3][4][5] investigated some interesting social behaviors, such as patter searching, online recommendation, reputation formation, et al, on computer networks. The references [6][7] considered decision making clustering for social networks.…”

Exploring the Usage of Social Networking Websites: Perceptions and Opinions of Romanian University Students

“…In a recent study [7] the author developed a questionnaire to ascertain how Lithuanian university students use social networking websites, what opinion they have about various social networking websites, and what they know about them. The data collected in Lithuania was further analyzed to identify dimensions of the perceived usefulness [8] as well as negative aspects related to their usage [1]. The results of this study show that university students highly value social networking websites.…”