"I'll poke you. You'll poke me!" Self-disclosure, social attraction, predictability and trust as important predictors of Facebook relationships
Vol.3,No.2(2009)
Facebook; social network sites; structural equation modeling; friendship; uncertainty reduction theory
Pavica Sheldon
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