First-year students specifically joined Facebook before university registration to make new face-to-face friends at university while keeping in touch with friends and family from home.¶

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q2 i? Many students joined Facebook pre-registration as a means of making new friends at university, particularly in the same hall or course, while also retaining home friendships. → Clare Madge 2008

Evidence¶

Clare Madge 2008¶

Clare Madge, Julia Meek, Jane Wellens, Tristram Hooley. (2008). Facebook, social integration and informal learning at University: 'It is more for socialising and talking to friends about work than for actually doing work'. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439880902923606

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Online survey of first-year Facebook users at a British university (213 responses, April-June 2008). The pre-registration section reports that "many students specifically joined Facebook pre -registration as a means of making new face-to-face friends at University" while keeping home ties.

"many students specifically joined Facebook pre -registration as a means of making new face-to-face friends at University, particularly with people in the same ha ll or on the same course, whilst also using Facebook to keep touch with current friends and family from home."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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