Vacationing from Facebook: Adoption, Temporary Discontinuance, and Readoption of an Innovation

York, Chance; Turcotte, Jason

doi:10.1080/08824096.2014.989975

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“…Recent studies have paid attention to the roles of different guānxì () dimensions exerting effects on the usage of social media (Chen et al, 2017; Davison et al, 2018). Much attention also should be paid to factors impacting different WeChat usage behavior, such as discontinuance behavior of WeChat and switching behavior to other social media (e.g., Turel, 2015, 2016; York and Turcotte, 2015). In fact, the increasing functions and more popularity of platforms such as Facebook and WeChat (e.g., see Table 1) have already resulted in some negative phenomena, such as technology/system overload (Karr-Wisniewski and Lu, 2010), information overload (Jacoby et al, 1974), and social overload (Maier et al, 2015a); and went along with negative emotional and behavioral outcomes, such as stress, conflict, and discontinuance (Maier et al, 2015b; Turel, 2015, 2016).…”

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The Multipurpose Application WeChat: A Review on Recent Research

2018

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With currently over one billion monthly active users, the Chinese social media and multipurpose application WeChat (, Wēixìn, micro-message) has become one of the world’s most popular social media platforms. Despite its enormous number of users in Asia, WeChat is still not well known in Western countries. Against this background, the present review aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview on the functionality of this application, comparison with other popular applications such as Facebook/WhatsApp and previous research. Although WeChat has become an integral part of everyday life for many users, research has only recently begun to examine the impact of this development on the societal and individual levels. The present review summarizes the literature on this topic with a focus on the motives to engage in using the app and potential detrimental effects of excessive use. In the context of the growing popularity and increasing usage times of the app – in particular in Asian countries – future research seems warranted to examine systematically how social media platforms such as WeChat will affect interpersonal communication behavior, well-being, and mental health. The direct comparison of WeChat’s influence on the mentioned variables compared with its competitors Facebook and WhatsApp often used in Western countries will also be of high importance.

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The Multipurpose Application WeChat: A Review on Recent Research

2018

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“…Moreover, Lehrer (2015), has highlighted that users may discontinue use because IT may no longer satisfy their evolving needs, while others have highlighted the importance of social influence (Kim, Lee, & Kim, 2008; Park et al, 2012). In some cases, discontinuance may be temporary, or what is called as “vacationing” (York & Turcotte, 2015). Oftentimes, users temporarily discontinue the use of an IT, with the intention to come back to it when the conditions change.…”

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“…In such cases, the reasons for temporarily discontinuing use entail that the system may not be available for a period of time, there is lack of institutional support, poor task‐technology fit and increased complexity (Pollard, 2003). When seen as “vacationing,” the reason for the break may be because IT is being intrusive to one's personal life (York & Turcotte, 2015) or a disturbance (Rosenbaum & Wong, 2015). Finally, discontinuance may entail replacing the incumbent IT with an alternative one.…”

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Generative mechanisms of workarounds, discontinuance and reframing: a study of negative disconfirmation with consumerised IT

Zamani

Pouloudi

2020

Information Systems Journal

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This study investigates the observed behavioural outcomes when users experience negative disconfirmation with consumerised IT artefacts with the aim to identify the generative mechanisms of these outcomes. We analyse blogposts, authored and published by tablet users, where they narrate their experience with an IT artefact. We employ grounded theory method techniques, and through the lens of Critical Realism and the application of abduction and retroduction, we identify three user accommodating practices following negative disconfirmation, namely discontinuance behaviour, workarounds and reframing, and two generative mechanisms with enduring properties and causal power over them: solution identification and cost/benefits assessment. Our work contributes to the literature of volitional IT use and the consumerisation of IT, by uncovering the mechanisms that pave the way towards observed user behaviours.

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“…Exposure to large amounts of news in social media may act like a noise or an obstacle when they cause a feeling of overload (Livni, 2017). The fact that many people leave Facebook because they perceive the site to be cognitively burdensome (York & Turcotte, 2015) implies that news overload can cause a significant consequence to users’ self-efficacy. Indeed, Karia (2015) found that information does have a negative impact on self-efficacy.…”

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Does Too Much News on Social Media Discourage News Seeking? Mediating Role of News Efficacy Between Perceived News Overload and News Avoidance on Social Media

Park

2019

Social Media + Society

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Drawing upon Bandura’s self-efficacy theory, this study conceptualizes “social media news efficacy” and examines how news efficacy connects perceived news overload on social media to news avoidance and social filtering. Findings from a two-wave panel survey of South Korean adults show that news overload is significantly related to a decrease of news efficacy, which in turn increases news avoidance on social media. The analysis also finds that news efficacy mediates the positive link between perceived news overload and social filtering over time.

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Vacationing from Facebook: Adoption, Temporary Discontinuance, and Readoption of an Innovation

Cited by 51 publications

References 12 publications

The Multipurpose Application WeChat: A Review on Recent Research

The Multipurpose Application WeChat: A Review on Recent Research

Generative mechanisms of workarounds, discontinuance and reframing: a study of negative disconfirmation with consumerised IT

Does Too Much News on Social Media Discourage News Seeking? Mediating Role of News Efficacy Between Perceived News Overload and News Avoidance on Social Media

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