IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jscscx/v7y2018i8p128-d161856.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Impact of Facebookers’ Posts on Other Users’ Attitudes According to Their Age and Gender: Evidence from Al Ain University of Science and Technology

Author

Listed:
  • Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh

    (Department of English Language, Al Ain University of Science and Technology, Al Ain 64141, UAE)

  • Sulafah Abdul Salam Alnamer

    (English Department, Emirates Falcon International School, Al Ain 68338, UAE)

Abstract

This study aims at exploring the reasons that drive many Facebookers to share negative posts on Facebook, with a special focus on their gender and age. It also aims at identifying the negative attitudes and feelings that negative Facebook posts might evoke in Facebookers. Thus, a mixed-methods approach was adopted employing both a five-point agreement Likert scale questionnaire and semi-structured interviews which were conducted with 40 participants. Based on the participants’ responses, the results show that many Facebookers write posts to satisfy different needs including receiving compliments and attention, sharing daily updates, showing off, and deliberately teasing others, all of which have been found to trigger feelings of jealousy, hatred, annoyance, demotivation, inferiority, and sadness. The study concludes with recommendations for further research.

Suggested Citation

  • Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh & Sulafah Abdul Salam Alnamer, 2018. "The Impact of Facebookers’ Posts on Other Users’ Attitudes According to Their Age and Gender: Evidence from Al Ain University of Science and Technology," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(8), pages 1-14, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:7:y:2018:i:8:p:128-:d:161856
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/7/8/128/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/7/8/128/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:7:y:2018:i:8:p:128-:d:161856. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.