“What do they snapchat about?” Patterns of use in time-limited instant messaging service

Piwek, Lukasz; Joinson, Adam

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“What do they snapchat about?” Patterns of use in time-limited instant messaging service

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Snapchat can be used for communication with the immediate environment.
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Snapchat use is often seen as fun and is used to communicate with the immediate community.
“The use of Snapchat is often seen as fun (Katz and Crocker 2015;Piwek and Joinson 2016) and it is used to communicate with the immediate community (Vaterlaus et al. 2016).”
From Uses and Gratifications of Problematic Social Media Use Among University Students: a Simultaneous Examination of the Big Five of Personality Traits, Social Media Platforms, and Social Media Use Motives (2020) · cites this paper as Piwek and Joinson 2016
Snapchat has more than 100 million users and is the third most popular SMS after Facebook and Instagram.
“Snapchat is known to have more than 100 million users (Piwek and Joinson 2016), and is the third most popular SMS after Facebook and Instagram (Duggan 2013;Utz et al. 2015).”
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Snapchat is used for obtaining gratification of maintaining close relationships with friends and family.
“Snapchat has been found to be used for obtaining the gratification of maintaining close relationships with friends and family (Piwek and Joinson 2016).”
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Authors: Piwek, L., & Joinson, A.
Affiliations: University of the West of England (GB)
Corresponding author: Piwek, Lukasz
ORCID: Piwek, Lukasz
Joinson, Adam
Venue: Computers in Human Behavior
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2016-01
Volume: 54
Pages: 358-367
ISSN: 0747-5632 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.08.026
OpenAlex: W1223606126
Cited by: 281
References: 53
Citations by year: 2026: 10 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 38 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 40 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 1
FWCI: 98.39
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
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Licence: cc-by
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Locations: Computers in Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
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Funders: Economic and Social Research Council (ES/N009614/1)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Media and Digital Communication
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Digital Communication and Language
Keywords: Snapchat, instant messaging, adolescents, selfies, social capital, bonding social capital, bridging social capital, strong ties, weak ties, social media use patterns

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