Pattern of Facebook Usage and its Impacts on Physical Activity

Objectives: The study was to find out the relationship between Facebook usage and participation in physical activities. Methods: During the year 2020, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 250 identified students from 5000 in the faculty of Allied Health Science at the University of Lahore, Pakistan. According to this survey use the technique of convenience sampling, after the formula of sampling by Yamane (1967). All of the questioners of the independent and the dependent variable are used for the measure Facebook addiction of the participation in physical activity. Results: Demographic data male participation 134 (53.6%) and 116 (46%) females in this study. The relationship among variables is .11, which is significant at p> .001. This result shows that there is a greater than a 0.1% chance that the independent variable (F.B) affects participation in the physical activity. The study reveals the limited benefits excessive use of Facebook is a little effect on participation in physical activity. Conclusion: As per this result, the limited benefits excessive use of Facebook is a little effect on participation in physical activity; another aspect may be an effect on the participation on the physical activity like social, educational, behavioral and economic, etc.

The Influence of Social Media Usage on Adolescents’ Identity Status and Academic Achievement: The Case of Woldia High School Students, North Wollo of Amhara Regional State

The major purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of social media usage on adolescents’ identity status and academic achievement among school adolescents. Correlational research design was used to address the core objective of the study. A total of 264 grade 10th students (124 male and 140 female) were randomly selected. Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation were employed to describe data and to analyze relationships among variables respectively while multiple regressions was employed to determine whether sex, age and social media predict academic achievement or not. As a result, the variable sex, age and face book usage found significantly predict academic achievement by about 8.2% (R2 =8.2%, F =7.09 p<0.05). Further, the study found that there were positively significant relationship among face book usage and adolescents’ identity status. Therefore, the computed Pearson correlation identified that moratorium identity status of the students correlated with facebook usage with r = .434 at p < .05; identity diffusion correlated with face book usage with r=.354 at p <0.05. Contrary to this, the computed Pearson correlation found negatively significant relationship between face book usage and identity achievement with r = -.104 at p = < 0.05), and between face book and identity foreclosure with r = - 0.89 at p < 0.05). In generally speaking, this study summarized that more than 70% of the adolescents in the study area are facebook users and most of them averagely use about 45 minutes to visit their facebook account per day while their facebook usage has direct relationship with their identity status. Based, on the findings, therefore, it was concluded that social media has both negative and positive influence on the identity status of adolescent and predicts adolescent’s CGPA. Hence, stakeholders’ due attention is highly needed to monitor the problem and create the way adolescents invest their time for their academic activities instead.

Why discontinue Facebook usage? An empirical investigation based on a push–pull–mooring framework

PurposeSocial media platforms are currently facing the challenge of declining user activity. Building on the push–pull–mooring (PPM) framework, the current study developed a research model to evaluate factors that affect Facebook discontinuance.Design/methodology/approachThe proposed research model assessed how push factors (e.g. Facebook fatigue and dissatisfaction), a pull factor (e.g. alternative attractiveness) and mooring factors (e.g. personal norms and habit of using Facebook) affected the discontinued usage behavior regarding Facebook. The proposed research model was validated using empirical data (n = 412) collected from Facebook users.FindingsFacebook fatigue, dissatisfaction and alternative attractiveness significantly and positively affected discontinued Facebook usage. Personal norms and habit of using Facebook had a converse influence in this regard. Dissatisfaction had a stronger positive impact than Facebook fatigue and alternative attractiveness on the discontinued usage behavior regarding Facebook. Habits of using Facebook had a greater negative effect than personal norms of using Facebook on the discontinued usage behavior regarding Facebook by users.Originality/valueThis study extends extant literature on social media discontinuance to identify the antecedents of discontinuous usage behavior in social media. This study enriches the literature on social media discontinuance by shedding light on the different degrees of effect of the push, pull and mooring factors on discontinuous social media usage behavior.

Who has a Choice?: Survey-Based Predictors of Volitionality in Facebook Use and Non-use

This paper examines volitionality of Facebook usage, that is, which individuals feel they have a choice about whether or not to use the site. It analyzes data from two large surveys, conducted three years apart. Across the two surveys, a variety of factors impacted whether or not respondents saw their Facebook usage as a matter of their own choice, such as engaging in non-use behaviors, measures of Facebook addiction, a sense of their own agency, and, across both studies, level of education. These results expand on prior literature around technology use and non-use, especially in terms of which populations may feel obligated to use, or be unwillingly prevented from using, social media such as Facebook. Furthermore, they provide potential implications both for future work and for technology policy.

A Neural Network Approach for Predicting Personality From Facebook Data

Everyday, social media usage particularly Facebook usage are growing exponentially. Simply, inspecting Facebook usage provides meaningful information concerning users’ daily interactions and hence about their personality traits. Numerous studies have been done to harness such streams of Facebook data to obtain accurate prediction of human behavior, social interactions, and personality. The aim of this study is to build a neural network–based predictive model that uses Facebook user’s data and activity to predict the Big 5 personalities. This study combines the inference features highlighted in three different relevant studies which are; number of likes, events, groups, tags, updates, network size, relationship status, age, and gender. The study was conducted on 7,438 unique Facebook participants obtained from the myPersonality database. The findings of this study showed how much a person’s personality can be predicted only by analyzing their Facebook activity. The proposed artificial neural network model was able to correctly classify an individual’s personality at an 85% prediction accuracy.

Motivated attention to stimuli related to social networking sites: A cue-reactivity study

Background and aimsIt has been argued that similar to addictive behaviors, problematic Social Network sites use (PSNSU) is characterized by sensitized reward processing and cue-reactivity. However, no study to our knowledge has yet investigated cue-reactivity in PSNSU. The present study aims at investigating cue-reactivity to Social Network sites (i.e., Facebook)-related visual cues in individuals identified as problematic vs. non-problematic Facebook users by the Problematic Facebook Use Scale.MethodsThe Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) were recorded during the passive viewing of Facebook-related, pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral pictures in 27 problematic and 26 non-problematic users. Moreover, craving for Facebook usage was collected using a Likert scale.ResultsDespite problematic users were more likely to endorse higher craving than non-problematic ones, Facebook-related cues elicited larger ERP positivity (400–600 ms) than neutral, and comparable to unpleasant stimuli, in all Facebook users. Only in problematic users we found larger positivity (600–800 ms) to pleasant than unpleasant cues and higher craving to be related with lower later positivity (800–1,000 ms) to pleasant and unpleasant cues.DiscussionRegardless of whether Facebook usage is problematic or non-problematic, Facebook-related cues seem to be motivationally relevant stimuli that capture attentional resources in the earlier stages of “motivated” attentional allocation. Moreover, our results support the view that in higher-craving problematic users, reduced abilities to experience emotions would be the result of defective emotion regulation processes that allow craving states to capture more motivational/attentional resources at the expense of other emotional states.