Are you happy for me … on Facebook? The potential importance of “likes” and comments

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Highlights:

• We applied Gable and Reis's (2010) capitalization processes model to Facebook.

• People remembered better their status updates that had received more likes.

• Satisfaction with response to one's status update depended on # of likes it received.

• Receiving more likes & comments was linked with greater self-esteem & happiness.

• Those who received more comments perceived FB community as more interested & caring.

摘要

•We applied Gable and Reis's (2010) capitalization processes model to Facebook.•People remembered better their status updates that had received more likes.•Satisfaction with response to one's status update depended on # of likes it received.•Receiving more likes & comments was linked with greater self-esteem & happiness.•Those who received more comments perceived FB community as more interested & caring.

论文关键词:Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts (PRCA) scale,Facebook,Paralinguistic digital affordances,Social support,Subjective well-being,Social networking (SNS)

论文评审过程:Received 8 May 2017, Revised 19 July 2017, Accepted 30 August 2017, Available online 17 September 2017, Version of Record 22 September 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.08.050