Year: 2017
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Personal photo-sharing has become a popular activity across social media platforms as a selfdisclosure activity.A survey of 366 (N=366) individuals via a web-based questionnaire measured correlations between photo-sharing on social networking sites (SNS) and fulfillment of self-disclosure goals.Data analysis indicated respondents posted selfies to social media to meet the information storage and entertainment self-disclosure goals.Facebook users also posted selfies to aide in relational development, whereas relational development was negatively correlated with the frequency of selfie-posting on Twitter.Neither gender nor age were found to have any impact on the number of selfies posted to social media, overall.However, Snapchat was a more popular SNS for selfie-posting among younger respondents, while Facebook was the most popular medium for posting selfies amongst the older respondents.
DOI: 10.22492/ijcs.2.2.05
Institution: Central Michigan University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2767115180