“Your Life Sucks,” but I think “You Deserved It”: Social approval and disapproval of messages on FMyLife.com

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Highlights:

• We performed a content analysis of the FMyLife.com rating system.

• We found if the poster showed remorse, raters tend to vote “your life sucks.”

• Posters purposely causing pain, harm, or acting sans thinking “deserved” disapproval.

• Elements of Social Judgment Theory play a role in the rating process of posts.

• Raters implore social judgment based on universal ideologies, ethics, and morals.

摘要

•We performed a content analysis of the FMyLife.com rating system.•We found if the poster showed remorse, raters tend to vote “your life sucks.”•Posters purposely causing pain, harm, or acting sans thinking “deserved” disapproval.•Elements of Social Judgment Theory play a role in the rating process of posts.•Raters implore social judgment based on universal ideologies, ethics, and morals.

论文关键词:Social Judgment Theory,Social networking,Virtual communities

论文评审过程:Available online 10 December 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.046