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Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness? An Online Social Networking Experiment

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Deters, Fenne große, Mehl, Matthias R.·2013·Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Online social networking is a pervasive but empirically understudied phenomenon. Strong public opinions on its consequences exist but are backed up by little empirical evidence and almost no causally conclusive, experimental research. The current study tested the psychological effects of posting status updates on Facebook using an experimental design. For 1 week, participants in the experimental condition were asked to post more than they usually do, whereas participants in the control condition received no instructions. Participants added a lab “Research Profile” as a Facebook friend allowing for the objective documentation of protocol compliance, participants’ status updates, and friends’ responses. Results revealed (1) that the experimentally induced increase in status updating activity reduced loneliness, (2) that the decrease in loneliness was due to participants feeling more connected to their friends on a daily basis, and (3) that the effect of posting on loneliness was independent of direct social feedback (i.e., responses) by friends.

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Authors: Deters, F. G., & Mehl, M. R.
Affiliations: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
University of Arizona (US)
Corresponding author: Deters, Fenne große
ORCID: Deters, Fenne große
Mehl, Matthias R.
Venue: Social Psychological and Personality Science
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2012-12-20
Volume: 4
Issue: 5
Pages: 579-586
ISSN: 1948-5506 (ISSN-L)
1948-5514
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612469233
PMC: PMC3820167
OpenAlex: W2154975162
Cited by: 523
References: 52
Citations by year: 2026: 27 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 64 · 2021: 67 · 2020: 41 · 2019: 56 · 2018: 36 · 2017: 32 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 3
FWCI: 39.95
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Social Psychological and Personality Science (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Universitätsbibliothek der FU Berlin Hochschulschriftenstelle u. Dokumentenserver (other-oa)
Funders: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD069498)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Keywords: Facebook, status updates, loneliness, online social networking, social connectedness, social feedback, social media use, self-disclosure

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