I sent you a friend request on facebook – the outsider of the community

Authors

  • Márton Attila Boda Szent István Egyetem, Gazdálkodás- és Szervezéstudományi Doktori Iskola

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18531/Studia.Mundi.2015.02.01.1-10

Keywords:

Facebook, bizalom, közösségi média, ismerős szerzés

Abstract

In December 2014 I made a research on the biggest social media platform, Facebook. The aim of the research was how does people from a community respond to friend requests from a stranger. First my fictitious character was totally unknown to the people who I sent friend request, but later there were lot of common friends, which helped to improve the number of friends. The trust toward my character was mostly based on this factor. During the research I had managed to get 1078 “friends”. 94.34% of them accepted the friend request without any conversation. Only 3.34% of them asked “how do we know each other?”. 3.49% of them even said happy birthday to my character. 79.12% of the those who had received the friend request accepted it.

Author Biography

  • Márton Attila Boda, Szent István Egyetem, Gazdálkodás- és Szervezéstudományi Doktori Iskola

    PhD student
    E-mail: Boda.Marton.Attila.2@hallgato.szie.hu

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Published

2015-07-06

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015): Studia Mundi – Economica

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Cikkek

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