What's Her Face(book)? How many of their Facebook “friends” can college students actually identify?

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Highlights:

• An online game to see if Facebook users knew the names of their “friends”.

• Facebook users only identified 72% of their friends' names.

• Males named more male friends; females named more female friends.

• Results were discussed in terms of social capital theory.

摘要

•An online game to see if Facebook users knew the names of their “friends”.•Facebook users only identified 72% of their friends' names.•Males named more male friends; females named more female friends.•Results were discussed in terms of social capital theory.

论文关键词:Facebook,Friending,Memory,Social capital theory,Privacy,Social media

论文评审过程:Received 25 July 2015, Revised 6 November 2015, Accepted 11 November 2015, Available online 30 November 2015, Version of Record 30 November 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.015