Its Not Who You Know, but Who You Add: An investigation into the differential impact of friend adding and self-disclosure on interpersonal perceptions on Facebook
We manipulated SNS profiles to see how it impacts the relational process. Adding a friend to ones network led to feelings of interpersonal liking. Level of self-disclosure impacted feelings of homophily and liking. These main effects are impacted by both participant sex and SNS profile owner sex.
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