Showing Off? Human Mobility and the Interplay of Traits, Self-Disclosure, and Facebook Check-Ins

Mobile and location-based media refer to technologies that can openly and dynamically portray the characteristics of the users and their mundane life. Facebook check-ins highlights physical and informational mobility of the users relating individual activities into spaces. This study explored how pe...

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Published in:Social science computer review 2013-08, Vol.31 (4), p.437-457
Main Authors: Wang, Shaojung Sharon, Stefanone, Michael A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Human
Internet
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical models
Media
Mobility
Narcissism
Personality
Personality Traits
Programming (Broadcast)
Self Disclosure
Sexual Deviation
Social networks
Sociology
Sociology of communication and mass media. Sociolinguistics
Sociology of knowledge and sociology of culture
Taiwan
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Summary:Mobile and location-based media refer to technologies that can openly and dynamically portray the characteristics of the users and their mundane life. Facebook check-ins highlights physical and informational mobility of the users relating individual activities into spaces. This study explored how personality traits like extraversion and narcissism function to influence self-disclosure that, in turn, impacts the intensity of check-ins on Facebook. Using survey data collected through Facebook check-in users in Taiwan (N = 523), the results demonstrated that although extraversion and narcissism might not directly impact check-in intensity on Facebook, the indirect effects of self-disclosure and exhibitionism were particularly salient. Moreover, a complete path from extraversion to Facebook check-in through self-disclosure and exhibitionism was discovered. Theoretical implications on human mobility and selective self-presentation are also discussed.
ISSN:0894-4393
1552-8286
DOI:10.1177/0894439313481424