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Washington, December 13 (ANI): The optimal social networking strategy depends on socioeconomic conditions. A new study has suggested.
Researchers Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia and Selin Kesebir of the London Business School explored the benefits of social networking strategies in two studies.
"In the age of Facebook, many Americans seem to opt for a broad, shallow networking strategy. Yet, cross-cultural research has shown that having many friends is not always viewed positively outside the United States," Oishi and Kesebir wrote.
One reason that Americans may prefer a large social network, the researchers surmise, is because Americans move around a lot. Thus, it may make sense to spread time and resources across many friends to minimize the loss of any one friend moving away.
Another important factor may be the economic conditions at a given time. When times are prosperous, your friends are less likely to need much help, whether it's covering a hospital bill or providing babysitting, and so a broad network of friends is easy to maintain.
But when times aren't as flush, having more friends might incur huge costs in terms of both time and resources.
With this in mind, Oishi and Kesebir predicted that a broad, shallow networking strategy would be optimal for people living in a residentially mobile, economically favorable context.
A narrow, deep networking strategy, on the other hand, would be optimal if people tend to stay in one place and economic conditions aren't as favorable.
In the first study, they created a model that simulated the benefits individuals receive from their social network under various socioeconomic conditions.
The researchers were able to simulate people who have different numbers of friends at different levels of friendship and they were also able to account for the investment required by each type of friendship.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 47% of Americans who use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have spent billions of minutes social networking in 2012.
The increasing prevalence of social communication via computers, apps, and mobile devices has been constant and controversial. Is social media advancing beneficial social, political, and business changes, or is it causing a harmful dependence on screen-based technology and spawning less meaningful interpersonal relationships? Are we better off in our new world of constant connectivity, or has more communication brought more problems?
ProCon.org, a nonpartisan research organization devoted to critical thinking on controversial issues, debuts its revamped website Social Networking (http://socialnetworking.procon.org) and delves into the pros and cons ofthe core question "Are social networking sites good for society?"
Proponents of social networking sites say that the online communities promote increased interaction with friends and family; offer teachers, librarians, and students valuable access to educational support and materials; facilitate social and political change; and disseminate useful information rapidly.
Opponents of social networking say that the sites prevent face-to-face communication; waste time on frivolous activity; alter children's brains and behavior making them more prone to ADHD; expose users to predators like pedophiles and burglars; and spread false and potentially dangerous information.
In addition to in-depth pro and con research, the revamped ProCon.org social networking website contains a historical background section, videos, photos, over 200 footnotes and sources, and Did You Know? facts including:
For pros, cons, and related research on whether or not social networking is good for society, visit http://socialnetworking.procon.org
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ProCon.org websites are free of charge and require no registration. The websites have been referenced by over 700 media entities, cited 36 times by the governments of 11 countries (including 20 US states and seven US federal agencies), and used by teachers, librarians, and educators in over 3,300 schools in 50 countries and all 50 US states.
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Washington, December 12 (ANI): Researchers including one of Indian origin have found that social networking sites can drive advertising revenue by encouraging the density of social ties or boosting the level of friendship or social connections between users.
According to the findings of the new study, more connected users prompt increases in visitation and browsing on the site, which helps stimulate online advertising revenue growth.
The research co-authored by Scott Shriver, assistant professor of marketing at Columbia Business School, Harikesh Nair, associate professor of marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Reto Hofstetter of the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland introduces new techniques to determine whether more connected users generate more content and vice versa.
The researchers examined the history of social tie formation and content creation on Soulrider.com, an online community of windsurfers based in Switzerland.
"Prior work in this area has reported a correlational relationship between social ties and user-generated content," Professor Shriver said.
"Our work attempts to go further by establishing and measuring causal effects," he said.
To address the question of causality, the authors leveraged the fact that users often post blogs about wind speeds at their preferred surfing locations. After merging the Soulrider.com data with wind speed information from the Swiss meteorological office, the researchers were able to establish that wind speeds correlated with content production but not social tie formation.
The team was then able to explain observed content production in terms of factors independent of social ties, which in turn allowed them to separately identify the causal effects of interest.
"One of the main issues that site operators like Facebook deal with is how to monetize the content that is created on their sites," Professor Shriver said.
"Our research finds that the density of the links between users on the network is critical for the ultimate success of the social network. It's not sufficient to just get people to join the site - increasing the strength of the relationships is key to increasing page views and therefore ad revenue," he said.
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