Monthly Archives: May 2012

Facebook Research

The recent Facebook IPO has generated a massive amount of interest in the company. It’s also important to note that hundreds of research studies predate the Facebook IPO. The social networking company offers a useful place for researchers to identify trends and test their predictions. The studies featured in this post mainly focus on Facebook in psychology, business and computer science. It’s also possible to find research on the role of Facebook in political movements and educational uses, but those topics aren’t really the focus of this post. You can use Google Scholar or the academic search engine of your choice to find these papers. This post features papers that have the word “Facebook” in the title. A broader search for studies on social media may also find useful papers about Facebook.

500 Friends and Still Friending: The Relationship between Facebook and College Students’ Social Experiences

A comparison of on and offline networks through the Facebook API

A Cross-Cultural Examination of Student Attitudes and Gender Differences in Facebook Profile Content

A Functional Role of Facebook: Psychological and Social Needs

A large-scale community structure analysis in Facebook

A Longitudinal Study of Facebook, LinkedIn, & Twitter Use

A network approach to Web 2.0 social influence: The influentials, word-of-mouth (WOM) effect, and the emergence of social network on Facebook

A pilot evaluation of associations between displayed depression references on Facebook and self-reported depression using a clinical scale

A Pilot Evaluation of Older Adolescents’ Sexual Reference Displays on Facebook®

A Privacy Preservation Model for Facebook-Style Social Network Systems

A review of Facebook research in the social sciences

A scientific collaboration tool built on the Facebook platform

A Study of compliment responses through Facebook’wall’based on the gender

A Study of Self-presentation in Light of Facebook

A Study of Social Networking Members’ Use Motivation, Confidence, Participation and Loyalty─ A Case Study of Facebook

A study on how males in early adulthood cope with loneliness¡ ÐThe case of Facebook users

A study on Lonely, Flow and Facebook user’s behavior

A Study on Relationships among Facebook Social Networking Service User’s Motivations in Participating Leisure Activities, Behavior and Leisure Benefits

A study on the intention to use Facebook mobile

A study on the management of Internet news community: take the Facebook” fan page” as example

A Study on the Motivation, Leisure Involvement and Leisure Benefits of Facebook Participants

A study on the motives of high school and undergraduate college students for using the social network site Facebook

A Study on the Uses and Gratifications of Social Network Sites: In the Case of Facebook in Taiwan

A Survey of Malicious and Spam Posts in Facebook

A tale of two languages: strategic self-disclosure via language selection on Facebook

A two-process view of Facebook use and relatedness need-satisfaction: Disconnection drives use, and connection rewards it

A Visualization Tool for Evaluating Access Control Policies in Facebook-style Social Network Systems

A walk in Facebook: Uniform sampling of users in online social networks

Activities and Reasons for Using Social Networking Sites by Research Scholars in NEHU: A Study on Facebook and ResearchGate

Adolescents’ sense of community on myspace and Facebook: a mixed‐methods approach

Affirming The Self Online: Motives, Benefits And Costs Of Facebook Use

After-life Presence on Facebook: Initial Analysis of Cases within the Mexican Culture

Afterlife Presence on Facebook: a Preliminary Examination of Wall Posts on the Deceased’s Profiles

Agents of Diffusion-Insights from a Survey of Facebook Users

Alcohol References on Undergraduate Males’ Facebook Profiles

Alcohol, Sex and Illegal Activities: An Analysis of Selected Facebook Central Photos in Fifty States

Aliases, creeping, and wall cleaning: Understanding privacy in the age of Facebook

All about me: Disclosure in online social networking profiles: The case of Facebook

An agent-based model of the development of friendship links within Facebook

An analysis of activities in Facebook

An analysis of self-construals, motivations, Facebook use, and user satisfaction

An Empirical Investigation of Social Network Influence on Consumer Purchasing Decision: The Case of Facebook

An empirical study of spatial and transpatial social networks using Bluetooth and Facebook

An Ethnography of Social Network in Cyberspace: The Facebook Phenomenon

An Examination of the Reciprocal Relationship of Loneliness and Facebook Use among First-Year College Students

An Exploratory Study of Brand Sharing Intention on Facebook-The Importance of Brand in Self-expression

An exploratory study on the privacy of children’s images in Spain’s most widely used social network sites (Tuenti and Facebook)

An initial examination of college students’ expressions of affection through Facebook

An investigation into Facebook friend grouping

An Investigation into the Problematic Use of Facebook

An investigation of college students using Facebook as a medium to form intimate relationships: Through the theoretical lens of TMIM

An Investigation on Relationships of Disinhibition, Conformity and Internet Addiction among online game player: The Case of Happy Farm On-line Game on Facebook

An Investigation on the Motivation and Satisfaction of Facebook Users

Analyzing Facebook privacy settings: User expectations vs. reality

Analyzing the Facebook friendship graph

Antecedents and consequences of online social networking behavior: The case of Facebook

Anti-spam email system in Facebook

Apache hadoop goes realtime at Facebook

Archiving the self? Facebook as biography of social and relational memory

Are Facebook friends like face-to-face friends? Investigating Relations between the Use of Social Networking Websites and Social Capital

Are Online Social Networks Communities?: A Social Network Analysis of Facebook

Are We Facebook Official? Implications of Dating Partners’ Facebook Use and Profiles for Intimate Relationship Satisfaction

Associations between displayed alcohol references on Facebook and problem drinking among college students

Associations Between Self-Reported Narcissism, Self-Esteem, and Social-Emotional Functions of Facebook

Attack vectors against social networking systems: the Facebook example

Attitudes toward online social connection and self-disclosure as predictors of Facebook communication and relational closeness

Auto-tagging the Facebook

Autotagging Facebook: Social network context improves photo annotation

Autotagit: A system for the automation of image tagging in the Facebook architecture

BBN-based privacy management sytem for Facebook

Beautifully Imperfect: Using Facebook to change a population’s attitudes toward marriage

Become a Fan: A Review of Restaurants’ Facebook Fan Pages

Behavioral Game Theory on Online Social Networks: Colonel Blotto is on Facebook

Being immersed in social networking environment: Facebook groups, uses and gratifications, and social outcomes

Beliefs About Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Response to Stereotypes: Youth Postings in Facebook Groups

Boundaries to the Articulation of Possible Selves Through Social Networking Sites: The Case of Facebook Profilers’ Social Connectedness

Brand Talk on Facebook–a New Challenge in Marketing Communication

Breaking Barriers: A Case Study of Culture and Facebook Usage

Breaking Ground in the use of social media: A case study of a university earthquake response to inform educational design with Facebook

British American tobacco on Facebook: undermining article 13 of the global World Health Organization Framework Convention on tobacco control

Broad Reach and Targeted Recruitment Using Facebook for an Online Survey of Young Adult Substance Use

Building stronger ties with alumni through Facebook to increase volunteerism and charitable giving

Business consequences in Social Networking (Facebook)

Business Model of Virtual community-The Case Study of Companies Using Facebook Social Networking Site

Campus vs. Facebook: When Do Offline Communities Meet Online

Can Facebook Predict Stock Market Activity?

Can Well-Being be Measured Using Facebook Status Updates? Validation of Facebook’s Gross National Happiness Index

Can you see the writing on my wall? A content analysis of the Fortune 50′s Facebook social networking sites

Cell Phones, Text Messaging, and Facebook: Competing Time Demands of Today’s College Students

Center of attention: How Facebook users allocate attention across friends

Changes in use and perception of Facebook

Characterization of user networks in Facebook

CISER and Facebook: A Proposal for Meeting the Demand for Multiple Platforms of Communication and Maintaining Authority in the Informal Environment

Clash of the Titans: Users Differentiation between Orkut and Facebook

Classifying Business Marketing Messages on Facebook

Classifying Virtual Property in Community Property Regimes: Are My Facebook Friends Considered Earnings, Profits, Increases in Value, or Goodwill?

Cloud Computing Architecture for Social Computing-A Comparison Study of Facebook and Google

Co-creation of value through social network marketing: a field experiment using a Facebook campaign to increase conversion rate

College Student Satisfaction: The Impact of Facebook and Other Factors

College Students’ Facebook Stalking of Ex-Partners

College students’ social networking experiences on Facebook

Colonel Blotto On Facebook: The Effect of Social Relations On Strategic Interaction

Communications and the Internet: Facebook, E-Mail, and Beyond

Communities of Participation: A Comparison of Disability and Aging Identified Groups on Facebook and LinkedIn

Community structure discovery in Facebook

Companies on Facebook

Computer Vision in Facebook Applications

Computer-mediated impression formation: a test of the sticky cues model using Facebook

Computer-Mediated Relational Development and Maintenance on Facebook®

Connecting Through Facebook: The Influence of Social Networking on Communication

Connection strategies: Social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices

Consumer motivations to join a brand community on Facebook

Contents and contexts: disclosure perceptions on Facebook

Contextual Gaps: Privacy Issues on Facebook

Contracting the Facebook API

Converting a social network into a brand network: how brand profile on Facebook is used as an online marketing communication tool

Coordinating the ordinary: social information uses of Facebook by adults

Corporate Facebook pages: when “fans” attack

Correlating Personal Information Between DoD411, LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace with Uncommon Names

Costs and Benefits of Facebook for Undergraduate Students

Crawling Facebook for social network analysis purposes

Creation, distribution and social data gathering by an application on Facebook

Crossing boundaries: Identity management and student/faculty relationships on the Facebook

Cultural Differences and Switching of In-Group Sharing Behavior Between an American (Facebook) and a Chinese (Renren) Social Networking Site

Cultural differences, experience with social networks and the nature of “true commitment” in Facebook

Cultural influences on Facebook photographs

Cyber spirituality: Facebook, Twitter, and the adolescent quest for connection

Cybertherapy meets Facebook, blogger, and second life: an italian experience.

Data Mining for Facebook Cliques

Data Mining On Facebook: A Free Space For Researchers Or An IRB Nightmare?

Data warehousing and analytics infrastructure at Facebook

Defacing Facebook: A security case study

Defining the patient-physician relationship in the era of Facebook

Deindividuation in the online social networking context: What situations might encourage deindividuation on Facebook?

Designing Groupware that Fosters Social Capital Creation: Can Facebook Support Global Virtual Team?

Designing Successful Intercultural Exchanges using Email, Videomail and Facebook

Determinant Factors of Time Spent on Facebook: Brand Community Engagement and Usage Types

Determining personality traits & privacy concerns from Facebook activity

Developing and Testing an Intervention for Safer Privacy Setting Use With Facebook (TM): The Impact on Disclosure and Use of Privacy Settings

Development of a Facebook Addiction Scale

Dialogic strategies and outcomes: An analysis of environmental advocacy groups’ Facebook profiles

Diaspora Basques and Online Social Networks: An Analysis of Users of Basque Institutional Diaspora Groups on Facebook

Did Facebook absorb freewill? The role of peer pressure in the rise of Facebook

Differential Privacy as a Response to the Reidentification Threat: The Facebook Advertiser Case Study

Digital impression management in the Facebook marketplace. The presentation of self in a networked society

Dimensions of Self-Expression in Facebook Status Updates

Disaster Relief in Laguna: A Geographical Information System Through Crowdsourcing on Facebook

Disclosure of personal and contact information by young people in social networking sites: An analysis using Facebook profiles as an example

Do People Trust Facebook as a Technology or as a “Person”? Distinguishing Technology Trust from Interpersonal Trust

Do religious contexts elicit more trust and altruism? An experiment on Facebook

Dramaturgical capitalization of positive emotions: the answer for Facebook success?

Drivers and Barriers to Online Social Networks’ Usage: The Case of Facebook

Drug discovery in the era of Facebook–new tools for scientific networking

Dying in the social media: When palliative care meets Facebook

e-sian: Youth Negotiating Asian in Racialized Online Groups on Facebook

Effects of a Facebook profile devoted to drug use in pregnancy on the discovery of inappropriate drug use by pregnant females in the former Yugoslav republics

Effects of Perceived Values on Continuance Usage of Facebook

Effects of self-disclosure on relational intimacy in Facebook

Effects Of Self-Monitoring and Public Self-Consciousness on Perceptions of Facebook Profiles

Efficacy of a Health-Related Facebook Social Network Site on Health-Seeking Behaviors

Embedding offline product seeding referrals into the Facebook friendship network: a field study

Emotion Care Services with Facebook Wall Messages

Emotional experience on Facebook site

Emotional reflexivity in contemporary friendships: Understanding it using Elias and Facebook etiquette

Emotional responses during social information seeking on Facebook

Empirical investigation on factors influencing the behavioral intention to use Facebook

Employers accessing Facebook: examining student attitudes and gender differences in posting faux pas

Engagement, bonding and identity across multiple platforms: Avaaz on Facebook, YouTube and MySpace

Engaging customers on Facebook: Challenges for e‐retailers

Engaging others in online social networking sites: Rhetorical practices in MySpace and Facebook

Engaging stakeholders through social networking: How nonprofit organizations are using Facebook

Enhancement of discriminatory features in Facebook for advanced user experience

Establishing New Friendships-from Face-to-Face to Facebook: A Case Study of College Students

Ethnic/racial homogeneity in college students’ Facebook friendship networks and subjective well-being

Ethno‐Racial Identity Displays on Facebook

Evaluating computer-mediated communication on the university campus: The Impact of Facebook. com on the development of romantic relationships

Evaluation of face recognition techniques for application to Facebook

Every Post You Make, Every Pic You Take, I’ll Be Watching You: Behind Social Spheres on Facebook

Evolution of User Activity with Time on Third-Party Facebook Applications

Examining mental health indices in students using Facebook in Iran

Examining students’ intended image on Facebook:“What were they thinking?!”

Examining the relationship between sensitivity to rejection and using Facebook in university students

Experience and privacy: Exploring the disclosure behaviors of established Facebook users

Experiences with the Facebook API: a Case Study

Explaining why young adults use MySpace and Facebook through uses and gratifications theory

Exploring Privacy Management on Facebook: Motivations and Perceived Consequences of Voluntary Disclosure

Exploring Social Media (Facebook and Twitter) as a Public Participation Tool for Design and Planning

Exploring temporal coordination of events with Facebook.com

Exploring the Eco-attitudes and Buying Behaviour of Facebook Users

Exploring the Facebook experience: a new approach to usability

Exploring the Relationship between Facebook, Face-to-Face and Intercultural Communication

Expressions of tragedy—expressions of hope: Facebook, discourse, and the virginia tech incident

Extraction and Analysis of Facebook Friendship Relations

Extrapolating psychological insights from Facebook profiles: A study of religion and relationship status

Fac (book) ing a crowd?: An exploration of audience, context, privacy, and self-presentation on Facebook

Face off: Implications of visual cues on initiating friendship on Facebook

Face-time: The construction of identity on Facebook

Face-to-face or Facebook: Are shy people more outgoing on Social Networking Sites?

Face-to-Facebook: A comparison of the effects of ostracism in 21st century social environments

Facebook & Infidelity

Facebook 2 Blackberry and Database Trading Systems: Morphing Social Networking to Business Growth in a Global Recession

Facebook activity of residents and fellows and its impact on the doctor–patient relationship

Facebook addiction among female university students

Facebook addiction: concerns, criticism, and recommendations – a response to Andreassen and colleagues

Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data

Facebook and College Students: Is Marketing Effective?

Facebook and Edublogs and Twitter, Oh My! Using Social Media to Connect Scientists to the Public

Facebook and Facial Recognition Technology: An Indexed Catalog of Our Digital Identities

Facebook and gendered views of ICT

Facebook and impressions of new roommates in the transition to college: The impact of discrepancies between online and offline roommate impressions on

Facebook and its behavioral rules: The emergence of a middle region

Facebook and MySpace and LinkedIn, Oh My: A Recruiter’s Dream….. or Their Worst Nightmare? A Study of the Impact of Social Networking Sites on Hiring Practices

Facebook and MySpace: complement or substitute for face-to-face interaction?

Facebook and networked interactivity

Facebook and online privacy: Attitudes, behaviors, and unintended consequences

Facebook and other Internet use and the academic performance of college students

Facebook and Panopticism: Healthy Curiosity or Stalking?

Facebook and Personality: What Do Status Updates Really Communicate?

Facebook and Privacy: The Balancing Act of Personality, Gender, and Relationship Currency

Facebook and Psychology: Use and Misuse of Social Networks

Facebook and Risks of “De-contextualization” of Information

Facebook and Texting vs. Textbooks and Faces

Facebook and the American Medical Record: A Very Fine Line Just Got Even Smaller

Facebook and the Challenge of Staying Private

Facebook and the commercialisation of personal information: Some questions of provider-to-user privacy

Facebook and the ideal social marketplace: A study of the marketing benefits of social media practices

Facebook and the police: Communication in the social networking era

Facebook and the professional behaviours of undergraduate medical students

Facebook and the social dynamics of privacy

Facebook and Youth@ SG: Online Privacy and Personal Information Disclosure

Facebook Application Development: Concepts and Example Using the PMOG Web Application

Facebook application project: online shopping improvement in social networking site

Facebook Applications and playful mood: the construction of Facebook as a third place

Facebook as a means of promotion of tourist agencies specialized for youth travel in Croatia and Serbia

Facebook as a platform for corporate branding: How IKEA brand values are co-created in communication by users on Facebook

Facebook as a Small World: a topological hypothesis

Facebook as a Tool for Producing Sociality and Connectivity

Facebook as a toolkit: A uses and gratification approach to unbundling feature use

Facebook as Agile CRM? A Business Intelligence Analysis of the Airline Ash Crisis

Facebook as an implied author: an investigation into the characterization techniques employed by users of the social networking site, Facebook

Facebook as international eMarketing strategy of Taiwan hotels

Facebook Feeding Frenzy: Resistance-through-distance and resistance-through-persistence in the societied network

Facebook Finance: How Social Interaction Propagates Active Investing

Facebook Flyer Advertising: A New Media Channel

Facebook for health: opportunities and challenges for driving behavior change

Facebook for Patients: Examining the Antecedents and Consequences of Medical Disclosure on Healthcare Social Media

Facebook for scientists: requirements and services for optimizing how scientific collaborations are established

Facebook Friend Suggestion

Facebook Game Network Analysis

Facebook Games: The Point Where Tribes And Casual Games Meet

Facebook immune system

Facebook in the Banking Industry: A Case Study in SEB, Sweden

Facebook in the Physical World

Facebook influence on purchase decision making

Facebook influence on university students’ media habits: qualitative results from a field research

Facebook Language? Functional Stylistics Approach to Postings

Facebook marketing strategies for big box retailers

Facebook me: Collective self-esteem, need to belong, and internet self-efficacy as predictors of the iGeneration’s attitudes toward social networking sites

Facebook meets the virtualized enterprise

Facebook Non-users in Saudi Arabia: Why Do Some Saudi College Students Not Use Facebook?

Facebook on Campus: The Use and Friend Formation in Online Social Networks

Facebook or Fakebook?: The effect of simulation on location privacy user studies

Facebook privacy settings: Who cares?

Facebook profiles reflect actual personality, not self-idealization

Facebook psychology: Popular questions answered by research

Facebook Related Privacy Issues; Perception and Awareness among Albanian Users

Facebook Sharing Habits And Its Effect On Personal Privacy

Facebook Therapy? Why Do People Share Self-Relevant Content Online?

Facebook tracks and traces everyone: Like this!

Facebook usage among Arabic college students: preliminary findings on gender differences

Facebook Usage and Social Capital Among College Students

Facebook Usage as a Predictor of Retention at a Private 4-Year Institution

Facebook usage patterns and school attitudes

Facebook use and Image portrayal: A comparison of students and working graduates

Facebook Use and Social Capital–A Longitudinal Study

Facebook Use by Peruvian Physicians: Exposing Private Life to Patients

Facebook Use by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise: The Role of Domain-Specific Innovativeness

Facebook use leads to health-care reform in Taiwan

Facebook use on campus: A social capital perspective on social network sites

Facebook Users Have Become Much More Private: A Large-Scale Study

Facebook Uses: How and Why? Uses and Gratifications Keeping Up With the Technology

Facebook versus email

Facebook-Its Usage and Influence on Teenagers as Perceived by Themselves and Teir Mothers

Facebook-The Final Frontier For TV Fandom: A Lurker’s Perspective

Facebook-the Future of the Internet?

Facebook, Friends and Photos: A Snapshot into Social Networking

Facebook, Ideological Difference, and Weak Ties: A Qualitative Analysis

Facebook, photos & sociocultural issues

Facebook, social integration and informal learning at university:’It is more for socialising and talking to friends about work than for actually doing work’

Facebook, the spice of life?

Facebook, Twitter, and the Uncertain Future of Present Sense Impressions

Facebook, YouTube, MySpace: can Web 2.0 social networking sites nudge the boardroom–the evolution of CRN 2.0 research agenda?

Facebook: A Comparative Study of its Usage on Smartphone vs. Computer

Facebook: A Comprehensive Analysis of Phishing on a Social System

Facebook: a new trigger for asthma?

Facebook: A Students Link to Social Connections

Facebook: Analyzing Its Perceptions on a University Campus

Facebook: Automated structures and reflexive social practices

Facebook: Encouraging Authentic or Inauthentic Identity Construction?

Facebook: Friend or Faux?

Facebook: friend or for of formative feedback?

Facebook: Making offline social connections online

Facebook: Making Social Connections

Facebook: Networking the Community of Society

Facebook: The role of the human agent in a non-neutral technology

Facebook: Threats to privacy

Facebook: topology to personality and back–an actor-based simulation.

Facebook: What the Relationship Status is All About

Facebook” Friends”: How online identities affect offline relationships

Facebook® and academic performance

FaceBots: robots utilizing and publishing social information in Facebook

FaceBots: social robots utilizing Facebook

Faceplant: Impression (Mis) management in Facebook status updates

Facework on Facebook: how it legitimizes online community membership and enables linguistic socialization through intertextuality

Facing Change: The Role of Context and Privacy Expectations in Facebook Disclosure Decisions

Facing” The Book”: investigating the discursive construction of Facebook through multiple modalities and the consequent construction of ideology.

Factors That Drive News Consumers to Become Facebook Fans of a Local TV Newsroom

Factors that influence the use of web based social networks: a study on Facebook

Factors that persuade continued use of Facebook among new members

Falling asleep with angry birds, Facebook and kindle: a large scale study on mobile application usage

Familiarity and prevalence of Facebook use for social networking among individuals with traumatic brain injury

Familiars: representing Facebook users’ social behaviour through a reflective playful experience

Farmer’s tale: a Facebook game to promote volunteerism

Feeling bad on Facebook: depression disclosures by college students on a social networking site

Feminist HCI meets Facebook: Performativity and social networking sites

Fessing Up to Facebook: Recent Trends in the Use of Social Network Websites for Insurance Litigation

Find us on Facebook: How Cause Marketing has Embraced Social Media

Finding Meaning in Facebook

Finding similar users in Facebook

Findings on Facebook in higher education: A comparison of college faculty and student uses and perceptions of social networking sites

Formal analysis of Facebook Connect single sign-on authentication protocol

FORUM – How to use Facebook in your market research

Friend me if you Facebook: Generation Y and performative surveillance

Friending Due Process: Facebook as a Fair Method of Alternative Service

Friending: London-based undergraduates’ experience of Facebook

Friending Professors, Parents and Bosses: A Facebook Connection Conundrum

Friends only: examining a privacy-enhancing behavior in Facebook

Friends who choose your news: An analysis of content links on Facebook

From CMS to SNS: Exploring the Use of Facebook in the Social Constructivist Paradigm

From Facebook to gradebook: An examination of the relationship between teen use of social networking sites and academic achievement

From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Analyzing Constructions of Gendered Moral Panic in Girls and Young Women in Public Spaces

From the Two Faces of Unionism to the Facebook Society: Union Voice in a Twenty-First-Century Context

Functional programming at Facebook

Functions and reasons for code-switching on Facebook by UTAR English-Mandarin Chinese bilingual undergraduates

Gaming on and off the social graph: The social structure of Facebook games

Gaydar: Facebook friendships expose sexual orientation

Gender Advertisements: Replication of a Classic Work Examining Women, Magazines, and Facebook Photographs

Gender differences in privacy-related measures for young adult Facebook users

Gendering Facebook: Privacy and commodification

Generation Facebook–A Cognitive Calculus Model of Teenage User Behavior on Social Network Sites

Generation of a template for usage point determination in Facebook

Generation Y and Facebook: A Case Study on Collage Students in Kuala Lumpur

Gesundheit! modeling contagion through Facebook news feed

Get the commitment from young adults to maintain the change in their food consumption behavior, by using the marketing power of Facebook

Getting to Me–Exporting Semantic Social Network Information from Facebook

Ghostbusting Facebook: Detecting and characterizing phantom profiles in online social gaming applications

Globalize or Chinanize A Comparison of Facebook and Kaixin001

Google, email and Facebook: Internet literacy to improve the health and well-being of newly arrived refugees and migrants A Pilot Study

Google+ Facebook: A Social-Network-Optimized Web Search Approach

Google+ v Facebook: The Comparison

Green-Eyed Facebook Monster: Social Network Use and Relationship Disruption

Grooming, gossip, Facebook and myspace

Group Recommendation System for Facebook

Growth mechanisms in continuously-observed networks: Communication in a Facebook-like community

Hadoop & its usage at Facebook

Happy movie: A group recommender application in Facebook

HappyMovie: A Facebook Application for Recommending Movies to Groups

Harnessing Facebook for the evaluation of recommender systems based on physical copresence

Harnessing User Data to Improve Facebook

Harvesting Ego-Network Data from Facebook

Health Organizations’ Use of Facebook for Health Advertising and Promotion

Health Privacy and the Facebook Generation

Hey Mom, What’s on Your Facebook? Comparing Facebook Disclosure and Privacy in Adolescents and Adults

Hidden social issues and unsatisfied human needs addressed through social networks: a special study on Facebook

Home is Where the Heart is: Facebook and the Negotiation of “Old” and “New” During the Transition to College

Hope for Haiti: An analysis of Facebook and Twitter usage during the earthquake relief efforts

How blind dates, internet dating, and Facebook can inform the building of effective organizational partnerships

How Can You Not be on Facebook?! A Digital Etnographic Exploratory Study of Portuguese Users

How Did Facebook Outspace Myspace With Open Innovation? An Analysis Of Network Competition With Changes Of Network Topology

How do couples’ attachment style and level of differentiation affect jealousy as related to Facebook usage?

How do people limit their behaviour in response to their perception of potential social tension? A study of Facebook

How do women entrepreneurs use the virtual network Facebook?: The impact of gender

How Does Brand-related User-generated Content Differ across YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter?

How does Facebook browsing affect self-awareness and social well-being: the role of narcissism

How Facebook can be used as a serious professional tool

How Facebook users select identity categories for self-presentation

How much personal and sensitive information do Cypriot teenagers reveal in Facebook?

How safe is Your Facebook Profile? Privacy issues of online social networks

How to Make Facebook Your Friend: Queer Self-presentation on a Heteronormative Social Network Site

Hybrid engagement: How Facebook helps and hinders students’ social integration

Hyper Reality on Facebook

I [Heart] Ana: The Use of Facebook by People with Eating Disorders

I got dumped on Facebook: new media’s role in conflict management

I like it because I’m like you – measuring user attitudes towards information on Facebook

I regretted the minute I pressed share: A qualitative study of regrets on Facebook

I said your name in an empty room: grieving and continuing bonds on Facebook

“I’ll poke you. You’ll poke me!” Self-disclosure, social attraction, predictability and trust as important predictors of Facebook relationships

I’m Not an Alcoholic, I’m Australian: An Exploration of Alcohol Discourse in Facebook Groups

Identification of User Patterns in Social Networks by Data Mining Techniques: Facebook Case

Identifying social capital in the Facebook interface

Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored relationships

Identity dilemmas on Facebook

Identity formation in social networks websites: Facebook and the interaction between young individuals in the cases of Slovenia and Catalonia

Identity management: multiple presentations of self in Facebook

Identity negotiation on Facebook.com

Image management on Facebook: impression management, self esteem and the Cultivation Theory

Image source detection: a case study on Facebook images taken by iPhones

Imagined communities: Awareness, information sharing, and privacy on the Facebook

Impact analysis on free online marketing using social network Facebook: Case study SMEs in Indonesia

Impact of Facebook Usage on Students’ Academic Achievement: Role of self-regulation and trust

Impact of the use of Facebook amongst students of high school age with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD)

Impacts of Computer-Mediated Communications on Social Behaviors of MSN and Facebook Users

Improving social game engagement on Facebook through enhanced socio-contextual information

Improving the Usability of Privacy Settings in Facebook

In beloved memory of: Facebook, death and subjectivity

In Perpetual Beta? On the Participatory Design of Facebook Games

In polite company: rules of play in five Facebook games

(In) Visible Threats? The Third-Person Effect in Perceptions of the Influence of Facebook

Individuals’ personal network characteristics and patterns of Facebook use: A social network approach

Inference Channels in the Facebook Social Network

Inferring Ties for Social-Aware Ambient Intelligence: The Facebook Case

Influence of gender and English proficiency on Facebook mobile adoption

Information disclosure and control on Facebook: Are they two sides of the same coin or two different processes?

Information disclosure and online social networks: From the case of Facebook news feed controversy to a theoretical understanding

Information disclosure on Facebook: a content analysis of American and Kenyan user profiles

Information literacy on Facebook: an analysis

Information revelation and internet privacy concerns on social network sites: a case study of Facebook

Innovation and the children of the revolution: Facebook and value co-creation

Inside Facebook: a prospective marketing channel

Instant Validation: Testing Identity in Facebook

Intelligent content-based privacy assistant for Facebook

Intensity of Smiling in Facebook Photos Predicts Future Life Satisfaction

Intention to Continue Using Facebook Fan Pages from the Perspective of Social Capital Theory

Intercultural friendship formation and development: A survey study based on an all-Chinese sample about the role of Facebook in the friendship between Chinese

International Facebook “Friends”: Toward McLuhan’s Global Village

Investigating Facebook walls: A quantitative approach to online community building

Investigating knowledge sharing behavior of virtual community from the perspective of multi-motives-based on the case of Facebook

Investigating the relationship between number of friends, posting frequency and received feedback on Facebook

Investigating the relationship between the social phenomenon of Facebook and narcissistic socio-cultural tendencies

Is Facebook making our kids violent?

Is Facebook really “open” to all?

Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students’ Life Satisfaction, Trust, and Participation

It’s complicated: how romantic partners use Facebook

It’s not that I don’t have problems, I’m just not putting them on Facebook: challenges and opportunities in using online social networks for health

Jealousy and Attachment 2.0: The Role of Attachment in the Expression and Experience of Jealousy on Facebook

Just Being Themselves? Goals and Strategies for Self-Presentation on Facebook

Knowledge Management via Facebook: Building a Framework for Knowledge Management on a Social Network by Aligning Business, IT and Knowledge

La Vida Online: The Parallel Public Sphere of Facebook as Used by Colombian Immigrant Women in Atlanta

Large-scale social media mining in Facebook

Laypersons can seek help from their Facebook friends regarding medical diagnosis

Learning from successive creative innovations? The case of solo and collaborative Facebook application development

Learning to Like Facebook? Effects of Cultural and Educational Capital on the Use of Social Network Sites in a Population of University Students

Leaving MySpace, joining Facebook: ‘Growing up’ on social network sites

Lessons from Facebook: The effect of social network sites on college students’ social capital

Leverage of a Facebook “game with a purpose” as a survey tool for climate change knowledge

Like a poke on Facebook: emergent semantics in location-aware social network services

LinkedIn and Facebook in Belgium

LinkedIn to Facebook and Twitter: The role of social media in developing community for non-profits

Live Data Mining Concerning Social Networking Forensics Based on a Facebook Session Through Aggregation of Social Data

Location-‐based services on Facebook

LOLing at tragedy: Facebook trolls, memorial pages and resistance to grief online

Longitudinal Analysis of Freshman Adoption of Facebook.com

Look at us: Collective narcissism in college student Facebook photo galleries

Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people?: motives and use of Facebook

Loosing “Friends” on Facebook

Losing face: An environmental analysis of privacy on Facebook

Machine Learning and Feature Based Approaches to Gender Classification of Facebook Statuses

Making YouTube and Facebook videos: Gender differences in online video creation among first-year undergraduate students attending a highly selective research

Malicious URL Detection on Facebook

Managing Facebook Friend Requests in Workplace Relationships: An Application of Communication Privacy Management Theory

Manifestations of personality in behaviors and features associated with Facebook profiles

Manifestations of personality in Online Social Networks: Self-reported Facebook-related behaviors and observable profile information

Marketing and Facebook

Me and my 400 friends: The anatomy of college students’ Facebook networks, their communication patterns, and well-being

Mediating Social Media: Examining User Risk Perception on Facebook

Mirror, mirror on my Facebook wall: Effects of exposure to Facebook on self-esteem

Mixi diary versus Facebook photos: Social networking site use among Japanese and Caucasian American females

Mobile experience sampling: Reaching the parts of Facebook other methods cannot reach

Modeling the evolution of continuously-observed networks: Communication in a Facebook-like community

Modern Approuch Regarding Online Marketing Through Facebook And Twitter

Monitoring Trends on Facebook

More information than you ever wanted: does Facebook bring out the green-eyed monster of jealousy?

More than just friends? Facebook, disclosive ethics and the morality of technology

Motivation and Creativity in Controlled Platforms: An Analysis Based on Facebook and iPhone Application Developers

Motivational drivers to develop apps for social software-platforms: the example of Facebook

Motivations of Facebook, You Tube and Similar Web Sites Users

Motives for Facebook use and expressing “true self” on the Internet

Moving from 2. No: Building strategic consensus to create communities for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder awareness on Facebook

Muslim American Facebook Users: An Examination of Motivation for Use and the Effect of Use

Mutualistic Interaction of Host and Entrepreneur: Entrepreneurial Organization Genesis at Facebook

My best day: Presentation of self and social manipulation in Facebook and IM

My Facebook profile: copy, resemblance, or simulacrum?

MySocialTree: Browsing the Facebook feed using hierarchies

MySpace and Facebook: Applying the uses and gratifications theory to exploring friend-networking sites

MySpace and Facebook: Identifying dimensions of uses and gratifications for friend networking sites

MySpace, Facebook, and Other Social Networking Sites: How Are They Used by Human Resource Personnel?

MySpace, Facebook, and the strength of Internet ties: Online social networking and bridging social capital

Narcissism on Facebook: Self-promotional and anti-social behavior

Narcissism or Openness?: College Students’ Use of Facebook and Twitter

Narcissism, extraversion and adolescents’ self-presentation on Facebook

Narrating a multifaceted self: producing and policing identity on Facebook

Narrative as self performance: The rhetorical construction of identities on Facebook profiles

Narratology on Facebook: An examination of how a digital narrative on Facebook influences identity and narrative elements, using Bridget Jones’s Diary

National accessibility portal and Facebook: a case study

NCAA athletes and Facebook

Negative emotional and cognitive responses to being unfriended on Facebook: An exploratory study

Negative Form of Participatory Culture! Hate Speech on Facebook-Turkey

Net worth: Facebook use and changes in social capital over time

Network level footprints of Facebook applications

Network Structure, Diffusion and Growth Over Time in a Facebook Application

New frontiers in communication: a qualitative study of the use of social networking site Facebook

New Social Collaborative Filtering Algorithms for Recommendation on Facebook

No Consequences: An Analysis of Images and Impression Management on Facebook

Not by the Book: Facebook as a Sampling Frame

Not just at face value-understanding how the University of Johannesburg (UJ) Facebook members use notions of public and private to perform their identity

Okay, Facebook me: Exploring behavior, motivations and uses in Social Network Sites

Older Adolescents’ Views Regarding Participation in Facebook Research

On Facebook, most ties are weak

On the Creation of Structural Facebook using Rule-Based Methods to Build and Exchange Ontology for Drug Design

On the evolution of user interaction in Facebook

On the Face of Facebook: Historical Images and Personhood in Filipino Social Networking

On the Value of Information–What Facebook Users are Willing to Pay

Online disclosure and privacy concerns: a study of Moroccan and American Facebook users

Online disclosure: An empirical examination of undergraduate Facebook profiles

Online Impression Management: Personality Traits and Concerns for Secondary Goals as Predictors of Self‐Presentation Tactics on Facebook

Online language: The role of culture in self-expression and self-construal on Facebook

Online obsessive relational intrusion: Further concerns about Facebook

Online persuasion in Facebook and mixi: A cross-cultural comparison

Online professionalism and Facebook-Falling through the generation gap

Online self-reported information: Facebook a hiring tool for businesses

Online social networking by patients with diabetes: a qualitative evaluation of communication with Facebook

Online Social Networking: Facebook Users and Outcomes

Online social networks in a post-Soviet state: how Hungarians protect and share on Facebook

Online Social Networks: Why Do “We” Use Facebook?

Online social networks: Why do students use Facebook?

Oops, I did it again: mitigating repeated access control errors on Facebook

Optimal Diffusion Strategy of Advertising Using a Facebook Application

Palestinian Facebook Groups: Their Uses and Gratifications

Paranoid androids: Facebook privacy, online reputation, and employment concerns of college seniors

Participation on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter

Perceived Social Support and Facebook Use Among Adolescents

Perceptions of corporations on Facebook: An analysis of Facebook social norms

Personal knowledge questions for fallback authentication: security questions in the era of Facebook

Personal Representation in Social Networks: A Discussion of Hyperreality in Facebook

Personality and Facebook: Personality’s Influence on Social Networking

Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use

Personality and Patterns of Facebook Usage

Personality impressions based on Facebook profiles

Personality impressions from identity claims on Facebook

Pharmacy students’ Facebook activity and opinions regarding accountability and e-professionalism

Photobook creation and social sharing on Facebook

Picture Perfect? College Students’ Experiences and Attitudes Regarding their Photo-Related Behaviors on Facebook

Pigeons, Facebook and the birthday problem

Planning in the age of Facebook: the role of social networking in planning processes

Platforms for mediated sociability and online social capital: the role of Facebook and massively multiplayer online games

Playing in a virtual bedroom: youth leisure in the Facebook generation

Poking Facebook: characterization of osn applications

Postmodern Rear Window: Facebook

PoX: Protecting users from malicious Facebook applications

Predicting Facebook Continuance Intention: The Roles of Interpersonal and Technology Trust

Pressure Relief and Office Workers Effort to Social via Social Network Service By Facebook

Prevalence of stress references on college freshmen Facebook profiles

Privacy and Awareness on Facebook.com

Privacy and Perceptions: How Facebook Advertising Affects its Users

Privacy as information access and illusory control: The case of the Facebook News Feed privacy outcry

Privacy attacks in social media using photo tagging networks: a case study with Facebook

Privacy in Interaction: Exploring Disclosure and Social Capital in Facebook

Privacy in Social Networking: A Usability Study of Privacy Interfaces for Facebook

Privacy in the Age of Google and Facebook

Privacy issues in social networking platforms: comparative study of Facebook developers platform and opensocial

Privacy management for Facebook

Privacy management in a connected world: Students’ perception of Facebook privacy settings

Privacy Perceptions of Photo Sharing in Facebook

Privacy-as-a-service: Models, algorithms, and results on the Facebook platform

Privacy, professionalism and Facebook: a dilemma for young doctors

Private and public self-disclosure among and between Facebook friends

Profiling: Predicting Social Anxiety From Facebook Profiles

Prognosis and prediction in a Facebook world

Psychiatric Illness and Facebook: A Case Report

Public Communication Strategies in Social Media of Non-profit Organizations: A Case Study of Facebook Fan Pages

Public Relations in the California Wine Industry: Improving social media use focusing on Facebook and Twitter

Quis pendit ipsa pretia: Facebook valuation and diagnostic of a bubble based on nonlinear demographic dynamics

Radio and Facebook: The relationship between broadcast and social media software in the US, Germany, and Singapore

Re-imagining Internet Scholarship: academic uses and abuses of the influential Internet social network, Facebook

Reaching users through Facebook: A guide to implementing Facebook athenaeum

Reading romance: The impact Facebook rituals can have on a romantic relationship

Reconnecting with the dead via Facebook: Examining Transcorporeal Communication as a way to maintain relationships

Recruiting Researchers Through Facebook

Recruiting Study Participants Through Facebook

Recruitment of participants using Facebook

Reflective Analysis on Facebook as Social Capital: Its Role in Transforming the Filipino College Students

Relational Maintenance Strategies on Facebook

Relationship Privacy in a Connected World: A Case of Facebook Friendship Page

Relationship strength estimation for online social networks with the study on Facebook

Relationships in Social Networks Revealed: A Facebook App for Social Graphs in 3D Based on X3DOM and WebGL

Religious motives for using Facebook among university muslim students

Reporting on the Reporters: Facebook and Journalists

Research ethics in the Facebook era: privacy, anonymity, and oversight

Research on Impact of Using Business Page in Facebook for Food Industry in Jakarta

Retirees on Facebook: can online social networking enhance their health and wellness?

Revealing the commercialized and compliant Facebook user

Revisiting Research Ethics in the Facebook Era: Challenges in Emerging CSCW Research

RIP: Remain in Perpetuity. Facebook Memorial Pages

Risky Disclosures on Facebook: The Effect of Having a Bad Experience on Online Behavior

Rough Neuro-PSO Web caching and XML prefetching for accessing Facebook from mobile environment

Saving face: The offline implications of behaviour on Facebook

Saving face: The privacy architecture of Facebook

Secret interest groups (SIGs) in social networks with an implementation on Facebook

Security issues challenging Facebook

See you on Facebook or Twitter? The use of social media by 27 news outlets from 9 regions in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Spain and

See you on Facebook: the effect of social networking on human interaction

See you on Facebook! A framework for analyzing the role of computer-mediated interaction

Seeking support on Facebook: a content analysis of breast cancer groups

Self-Coordinated Defense Mechanisms against Cyberhate: An Analysis of Postings Related to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Facebook

Self-Disclosure of Illicit Activities on MySpace, Facebook and YouTube: What Gets Posted and Why

Self-Generated Versus Other-Generated Statements and Impressions in Computer-Mediated Communication A Test of Warranting Theory Using Facebook

Self-Injury Groups on Facebook

Self-presentation 2.0: Narcissism and self-esteem on Facebook

Self-Presentation on Online Dating Sites and Facebook: A Comparative Analysis

Sentiment Analysis: Facebook Status Messages

Sex Differences in Communication Online: A Facebook Study

Sex differences in use of Facebook and myspace among first-year college students

Shaping Youth Discourse about Technology: Technological Colonization, Manifest Destiny, and the Frontier Myth in Facebook

Sharing Sensitive Personal Health Information through Facebook: the Unintended Consequences.

Should Employees Accept Their Boss’s Facebook ‘Friend’ Request?: Examining Gender and Cultural Differences

Shy People and Facebook Continuance of Usage: Does Gender Matter?

Signing Me onto Your Accounts through Facebook and Google: a Traffic-Guided Security Study of Commercially Deployed Single-Sign-On Web Services

Similarities and differences in self-disclosure and friendship development between face-to-face communication and Facebook

So, You’re a Millennial-Create us a Facebook Presence

Social and economic impact of internet social networks: Survey on Facebook network

Social capital on Facebook: Differentiating uses and users

Social capital: the benefit of Facebook ‘friends’

Social Circles: A 3D User Interface for Facebook

Social Connectedness on Facebook–An explorative study on status message usage

Social gaming for change: Facebook unleashed

Social Identity in Facebook Community Life

Social Media and Italian Universities: An Empirical Study on the Adoption and Use of Facebook, Twitter and Youtube

Social Media and the Social Good: How Nonprofits Use Facebook to Communicate with the Public

Social media and tourism: the use of Facebook by the European national tourism organizations

Social media networking: Facebook and Twitter

Social media research for user behavior and advertisement reaction about Facebook and Plurk

Social media usage and work values: The example of Facebook in Taiwan

Social media, social capital, and seniors: The impact of Facebook on bonding and bridging social capital of individuals over 65

Social network collaborative filtering framework and online trust factors: A case study on Facebook

Social network sites comparison between the united states and China: Case study on Facebook and renren network

Social network web sites and intra-organizational relationships: Using Facebook to build employee relationships at Serena Software

Social networking APIs for companies—An example of using the Facebook API for companies

Social Networking as an emerging tool of communication: A study of Facebook usage by Kashmiri Print Journalists

Social Networking for Better Policing: Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and Google Voice

Social networking in a disconnected network: fbDTN: Facebook over DTN

Social networking on Facebook

Social Networking Sites and Crime: Is Facebook more than just a Place to Procrastinate?

Social networking: investigating the features of Facebook application

Social networks as an attack platform: Facebook case study

Social networks—are they good for your health? The era of Facebook and Twitter

Social Penetration Theory, Social Networking and Facebook

Social relationships and identity online and offline: a study of the interplay between offline social relationships and Facebook usage by Rhodes University

Social research 2.0: virtual snowball sampling method using Facebook

Social structure of Facebook networks

Social ties, social networks and the Facebook experience

Social-networkers of the world, unite and take over: A meta-introspective perspective on the Facebook brand

Socializing and Self-Representation online: Exploring Facebook

Socializing virtual worlds with Facebook: a prototypical implementation of an expansion pack to communicate between Facebook and OpenSimulator based

Socio-health with personal mental health records: Suicidal-tendency observation system on Facebook for Taiwanese adolescents and young adults

Socioeconomic Status Updates: College Students, Family SES, and Emergent Social Capital in Facebook Networks

Special Events on Facebook: The relationship of online subculture, eWOM, eTrust, and purchase intention

Speech Acts Within Facebook Status Messages

Sport Facilities in the Czech Republic and Promotion at the Facebook

Standing on an Internet Soapbox: An Exploration of Language and Gender on Facebook

Stardust on Facebook

Staring: How Facebook Facilitates the Breaking of Social Norms

Status: More Facebook Friends, Larger Brain Structures Important to Social Cognition, Study Finds

Stop spamming me! – Exploring Information Overload on Facebook

Strength of Internet ties and impact of Facebook on youth

Student athletes on Facebook

Student awareness of the privacy implications when using Facebook

Student Facebook connections in a Global Project Based Engineering Design Course

Student favorite: Facebook and motives for its use

Student life on the Facebook

Student Perceptions of Facebook, an Online Social Networking Site at a Non-Residential, Community Branch College in Northeastern Pennsylvania

Student socialization in the age of Facebook

Students’ Facebook ‘friends’: public and private spheres

Students’ perceptions, experiences and beliefs about Facebook in subjects at an Australian university

Stumbl: Using Facebook to collect rich datasets for opportunistic networking research

Surveillance on Reality Television and Facebook: From Authenticity to Flowing Data

Sweden’s largest Facebook study

Tackling Twitter and Facebook Fakes: ID Theft in Social Media

Taiwanese Facebook Users’ Motivation and the Access of Information Technology

Take two aspirin and tweet me in the morning: how Twitter, Facebook, and other social media are reshaping health care

Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

Taxing Facebook Code: Debugging the Tax Code and Software

Television meets Facebook: social networking through consumer electronics

Television’s newcomers: Netflix, Apple, Google and Facebook

The anatomy of the Facebook social graph

The antecedents of changing Facebook content for employment: an application of the theory of reasoned action

The Behavior of Word of Mouth on Facebook

The benefits of Facebook “friends:” Social capital and college students’ use of online social network sites

The Big Five Personality Factors as predictors of Facebook Usage

The Closer the Relationship, the More the Interaction on Facebook? Investigating the Case of Taiwan Users

The Communication Effects of Facebook on Teenagers

The construction of self in social medias, such as Facebook

The Continuance of Online Social Networks: How to Keep People Using Facebook?

The creative uses of Facebook as a tool for artistic collaboration

The Dark Side of Facebook Games

The day we all became hokies: An exploratory uses and gratifications study of Facebook use after the Virginia Tech shootings

The Design and Development of Facebook Based Agenda Application With BlackBerry Integration

The Disclosure of Personal Information by UK University Students on Facebook and MySpace

The effect of emotion on brand attitude of Facebook fanpage

The effect of relational mobility on SNS user behavior: A study of Japanese dual-users of Mixi and Facebook

The Effectiveness of WOM by Using Facebook as an Implementation in Movie Industry

The effects of anticipated future interaction and self disclosure on Facebook

The effects of extraversion on the usage of and attitudes towards Facebook

The Effects of Facebook Habits on Academic Success

The Effects of Facebook on Jealousy in Relationships

The effects of Facebook use on college students’ interpersonal development

The Effects of Outcome Expectations on Monetary- and Non-Monetary Rewarded Product Recommendations in Open- and Invitation-only Social Networking Sites: An Empirical Comparison of Facebook and ASmallWorld

The Effects of Verbal Versus Photographic Self‐Presentation on Impression Formation in Facebook

The extent of use of basic Facebook user-generated content by the national tourism organizations in Europe

The face of privacy: An exploratory study of young and older Facebook users

The Facebook activities of the Commerzbank AG: A study of the intended idea and the literal outcome of personal marketing strategies on Facebook

The Facebook campus: Exploring the evolution of Facebook culture in university students

The Facebook Effect: Secondary Markets and Insider Trading in Today’s Startup Environment

The Facebook Effect: Social Network Sites and Changing Experiences of LGBT Students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Facebook paths to happiness: Effects of the number of Facebook friends and self-presentation on subjective well-being

The Facebook phenomenon: Boundaries and controversies

The Facebook Project-Performance and Construction of Digital Identity

The Facebook project: Social capital and the chief

The Facebook: Analysis of a Cornell community social network

The Faces of Facebookers: Investigating Social Enhancement and Social Compensation Hypotheses; Predicting Facebook™ and Offline Popularity from Sociability

The imagined audience on Facebook: Analysis of Estonian teen sketches about typical Facebook users

The Impact of Facebook on the College Experience

The Influence of Cultures on SNS Usage: Comparing Mixi in Japan and Facebook in the US

The Influence of Facebook friends on Consumers’ Purchase Decisions

The influence of Facebook in student consumer decision making

The influence of Facebook usage on the academic performance and the quality of life of college students

The influence of Facebook use on pro-environmental behavioral intentions: The roles of parasocial interaction and identification with a celebrity

The influence of personality and internalization of media ideals on Facebook image selection

The influence of personality on Facebook usage, wall postings, and regret

The influence of shyness on the use of Facebook in an undergraduate sample

The Influence of Social Interaction and Social Capital on Brand Relationship Quality on Facebook Fan Page

The influences of social self-efficacy on social trust and social capital: a case study of Facebook

The Innovation Architectures of Facebook

The interpretation of online identity on Facebook and social networking sites

The lies we tell and what they say about us: Using behavioural characteristics to explain Facebook activity

The links that bind: Uncovering novel motivations for linking on Facebook

The moderating effect of ‘intensity of Facebook use’ between social trust and social capital

The motivation to use and social presence affect the frequency of media use of Facebook users in Taiwan for a variety of the internet community media.

The National Accessibility Portal and social networking sites: How to make Facebook and Twitter work for you

The nature of “true commitment” in Facebook

The Pedagogy of Regret: Facebook, binge drinking and young women

The personality of popular Facebook users

The Pinocchio revolution—when the protagonists come to life: covert story within the cybercommunity of Facebook

The Politics of Image: The Image Economy on Facebook

The potentials and pitfalls of social networking sites such as Facebook in higher education contexts

The product purchase intentions in Facebook using analytical hierarchical process

The Recruiting Activities of Applications on Social Networking Sites─ A Case Study of Facebook

The relationship between Facebook and the well-being of undergraduate college students

The relationship between frequency of Facebook use, participation in Facebook activities, and student engagement

The relationship between unwillingness-to-communicate and students’ Facebook use

The Research of Participation in Anti-fans Groups on Facebook

The Research of Virtual Brand Community Identification: A Case Study of President Starbucks Facebook Page

The rise and fall of a Facebook hate group

The role of espoused national cultural values in Facebook adoption: a replication with Arabic sample

The role of friends’ appearance and behavior on evaluations of individuals on Facebook: Are we known by the company we keep?

The Role of New Media in Tourism Marketing and Advertisement for Attracting Tourists: Concentrating on Facebook and YouTube – A Case Study

The role of normative influence, risk, and trust in Facebook users’ online privacy protection behaviour

The Role of Social Media in Promoting Special Events: Acceptance of Facebook ‘Events’

The role of strong and weak ties in Facebook: a community structure perspective

The Routinization of Social Network Media. A Qualitative Study on Privacy Attitudes and Usage Routines among Facebook Users

The rules of Facebook friendship: A two-stage examination of interaction rules in close, casual, and acquaintance friendships

The Social Consequences of Social Networking Sites: The Impact of Facebook on Teenage Girls

The social network: An analysis of the use of Facebook by nonprofit organizations in the south

The spread of emotion via Facebook

The study of Facebook users lifestyle on the use of motivation and advertising effectiveness

The Study of Social Media Marketing for the Nonprofit Organizations: A Case Study of Facebook

The ties that bond: Re-examining the relationship between Facebook use and bonding social capital

The transformation of users’ relationship to privacy in the paradoxical context of Facebook

The university Facebook experience: the role of social networking on the quality of interpersonal relationships

The usage of Facebook as it relates to narcissism, self-esteem and loneliness

The Use and Abuse of Facebook by Generation Y

The Use of Compliments in It Girl Game Online on Facebook (A Study of Compliment and Gender of Participants as Sociolinguistics Study)

The Use of Facebook and its Implications: The Motivations for Revisiting and Regular Users’ Ethical Attitude

The Use of Facebook as a Marketing Tool by Private Educational Institutions in Singapore

The use of Facebook for social networking within a community on the Cape Flats

The Use of Facebook functions and the effect it has on other methods of communication

The use of Facebook in social research. The virtual snowball method applied to the study of immigrants entrepreneurs in Spain

The Utilization of Facebook as a Publicity Vehicle During the 2010 Final Season of ABC’s Lost

The virtual geographies of social networks: a comparative analysis of Facebook, LinkedIn and ASmallWorld

The writing on the (Facebook) wall: The use of social networking sites in hiring decisions

They Are Happier and Having Better Lives than I Am: The Impact of Using Facebook on Perceptions of Others’ Lives

They can do that?: issues of identity, privacy, and the commercialization of Facebook

Time to face it! Facebook intrusion and the implications for romantic jealousy and relationship satisfaction

Tips for a mathematical model of Facebook

To play or not to play: An exploratory content analysis of branded entertainment in Facebook

To Post or Not to Post: An Examination of Gender Differences in Undergraduates’ Self-Disclosure on Facebook

To shock or inspire: Understanding which emotions drive video sharing on Facebook

To Tell or Not to Tell: Predictors of Disclosure and Privacy Settings Usage in an Online Social Networking Site (Facebook)

Too many Facebook “friends”? Content sharing and sociability versus the need for privacy in social network sites

Too much face and not enough books: The relationship between multiple indices of Facebook use and academic performance

Too much of a good thing? The relationship between number of friends and interpersonal impressions on Facebook

Towards a Taxonomy of Privacy Concerns of Online Social Network Sites Users: A Case Study of Facebook Beacon

Traits, Predictors, and Consequences of Facebook Self-Presentation

Trust and privacy concern within social networking sites: A comparison of Facebook and MySpace

Turkish Elementary School Students’ Facebook Experiences Reflected in Their Drawings

Typing friendship into being: vocatives in Facebook wall-to-wall conversations

Unbiased sampling of Facebook

Uncovering the social impacts of Facebook on a college campus

Understanding emergence and outcomes of information privacy concerns: A case of Facebook

Understanding information disclosure behaviour in Australian Facebook users

Understanding jealousy in romantic relationships: links to attachment, Facebook involvement, and relational outcomes

Understanding privacy settings in Facebook with an audience view

Understanding social media marketing: a case study on topics, categories and sentiment on a Facebook brand page

Understanding the Predictors of Negative Personal Relationship Experiences on Facebook

Understanding users’ continuance of Facebook: The role of general and specific computer self-efficacy

Unfriending on Facebook: Friend request and online/offline behavior analysis

Unveiling Facebook: a measurement study of social network based applications

Use behaviors and website experiences of Facebook community

Use of Facebook as a tool of positioning in restaurants of Colima City

Use of Facebook to support module delivery for undergraduate engineering programmes

Use of new media by fans in sports communication: Facebook and Twitter

User descriptions and interpretations of self-presentation through Facebook profile images

User managed trust in social networking-Comparing Facebook, MySpace and Linkedin

User Motivations for Using Business Facebook Pages

User-generated E-books from Facebook contents

Users’ Awareness of Privacy on Online Social Networking sites-Case Facebook

Uses and gratifications of social media: A comparison of Facebook and Instant Messaging

Uses and perceptions of Tuenti and Facebook among students from the University of the Basque Country

Using a social networking site such as Facebook, to enhance the feeling of belonging, within a first year nursing cohort of a large university

Using Facebook and Text Messaging to Deliver a Weight Loss Program to College Students

Using Facebook as a data source and platform for e-researching social networks

Using Facebook following tragedies: A lesson for community colleges

Using Facebook for cross-cultural collaboration: the experience of students from Taiwan

Using Facebook for professional networking: a modern-day essential

Using Facebook out of habit

Using Facebook to Assess Candidates During the Recruiting Process: Ethical Implications

Using Facebook to increase spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions

Using Facebook to Reset Bank Passwords

Using smart phones and Facebook in a major assessment: The Student Experience

Using stewardship to cultivate fandom online: comparing how National Football League teams use their web sites and Facebook to engage their fans

Utilising Facebook: immersing Generation-Y students into first year university

Utilizing Facebook application for disaster relief: Social network analysis of American Red Cross cause joiners

Vcast on Facebook: bridging social and similarity networks

Via Facebook to Jerusalem: Social Media as a Toolbox for the Study of Religion

Virus propagation modeling in Facebook

Visualization of social interactions in Facebook

Walking in Facebook: A case study of unbiased sampling of OSNs

Wall of me: Facebook self-disclosure and partner responsiveness resulting in confirmation or violation of expectations and consequences for intimacy and

Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook

Watching the Watchers: An Examination of the Portrayal of Facebook and MySpace in the Print Media

We Are All Connected to Facebook… by Facebook!

Weak Signals in Innovation Journalism–Cases Google, Facebook and Twitter

Welcome to Facebook: Changing The Boundaries of Identity, Community And Disclosure

Welcome to Facebook: How Facebook Influences Parent-Child Relationship

What a “Facebook Smile” Reveals About Future Happiness: The Expression of Positive Affect in Facebook Photographs Predicts Long-Term Well-Being

What does it mean to trust Facebook?: examining technology and interpersonal trust beliefs

What happens when Facebook is gone?

What is the motivation for using Facebook?

What it Means to be a (Facebook) Friend: Navigating Friendship on Social Networking Sites

What’s in a name: A study of names, gender inference, and gender behavior in Facebook

What’s up? Lol!: Optimism and Gender Differences in Social Support on Facebook.com

When Social Networking Is Not Working Individuals With Low Self-Esteem Recognize but Do Not Reap the Benefits of Self-Disclosure on Facebook

When social networks cross boundaries: a case study of workplace use of Facebook and linkedin

Where do Facebook intelligent lists come from?

Which Web 2.0? Facebook, MySpace and why context matters

White flight in networked publics? How race and class shaped American teen engagement with MySpace and Facebook

Who needs Facebook anyway – privacy and sociality in social network sites

Who needs Facebook or Google+ anyway: privacy and sociality in social network sites

Who uses Facebook? An investigation into the relationship between the Big Five, shyness, narcissism, loneliness, and Facebook usage

Who wants to be “friend-rich”? Social compensatory friending on Facebook and the moderating role of public self-consciousness

Whos posting Facebook faux pas? A cross-cultural examination of personality differences

Why do people use Facebook?

Why is Facebook so successful? Psychophysiological measures describe a core flow state while using Facebook

Why won’t you be my Facebook friend?: strategies for managing context collapse in the workplace

Will the Overseas Expansion of Facebook Succeed?

Will you be my Facebook friend?

Woopee Inn–A Data-mining Facebook Game

Yearning to Be the Center of Everything, When We Are the Center of Nothing: The Parallels and Reversals in Chaco, Hubble, and Facebook

You don’t know me but can I be your friend? Accepting strangers as friends in Facebook

You have been poked: Exploring the uses and gratifications of Facebook among emerging adults

You’ve been tagged!(Then again, maybe not): Employers and Facebook

You’ve Got Messages: Modern Technology Recruiting Through Text-Messaging and the Intrusiveness of Facebook

Young, Black, and Connected Facebook Usage Among African American College Students

Your Brain on Facebook: Neuropsychological Associations with Social Versus other Media

Your Facebook Deactivated Friend or a Cloaked Spy

YouTube and Facebook: Online Video ‘Friends’ Social Networking

Exercise for Mood and Anxiety

Exercise for Mood and Anxiety is a book written by two psychology professors, Dr. Michael Otto and Dr. Jasper Smits. This post has some notes from the book.

• A study of 55,000 adults in the USA and Canada found that people who exercised had fewer symptoms of anxiety and depression.

• A study of over 10,000 Harvard alumni over 20 years found that rates of depression were linked to the amount of physical activity the alumni reported.

• A study of adolescents showed that 16% who were not physically active developed an anxiety disorder over a 4-year period, compared to only 8% of those who exercised regularly.

• A study of firefighters found that those who completed a 16-week exercise program had lower heart rates and blood pressure, as well as lower anxiety and negative mood when faced with stressors.

• Prolonged exercise results in increased serotonin metabolism.

• A study found that 45% of depressed people in a supervised exercise group and 40% in a home exercise group no longer met criteria for major depression after the intervention, rates that were comparable to a 47% improvement in a group that took antidepressants.

• A study of anxious people showed that six 20-minute sessions of exercise across two weeks led to a reduction in anxiety comparable to that seen after twelve 90-minute sessions of psychotherapy across three months.

• A review of eleven studies shows that exercise works as well as psychotherapy in treating depression.

• Both aerobic and anaerobic exercise have been found to be helpful in treating depression, though moderate exercise is more effective than lower doses of exercise.

• Research has found that the immediate effects of exercise on mood and anxiety tend to be greater among persons who have higher levels of anxiety or more negative moods in general.

• A study found that people with overpositive fantasies of success were less likely to get the outcomes they desired.

• Memories of an emotional event tend to be biased by what happened at the end of the event. If you complete your exercise session on a more positive note, you will be more motivated to exercise in the future.

• The results of over 29 studies that involved more than 2,000 people demonstrate that aerobic exercise improves attention, mental processing speed, and memory.

• A study found that imagining enjoyment and energy helped people feel better during exercise.

• A study showed that bicyclists improved their performance while listening to music they preferred.

• Studies indicate that interval training can provide more benefits than continuous exercise.

• A study found that a dietary pattern characterized by fried foods, refined grains, sugary products, and beer was associated with higher mood distress scores.

• Data from 3,486 adults in the UK found that a high consumption of processed meat, fried food, refined grains, dairy products, sweetened desserts, chocolates, and condiments was associated with higher depression scores. A Mediterranean diet was associated with lower depression scores.

• Using smaller plates leads to less food consumption while still providing feelings of satiety.

Brain Candy

Brain Candy is a book about nootropics written by two neuroscientists, Dr. Theodore Lidsky and Dr. Jay Schneider. This post has some notes featuring studies from the book that support the effectiveness of certain supplements.

Acetyl-L-Carnitine: improves memory and executive functioning in Alzheimer’s patients with earlier disease onset, improves memory and executive functioning in abstinent alcoholics

Alpha-GPC: improves memory and attentional functioning of patients with cognitive impairments due to circulatory problems, improves functioning of cognitively impaired people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease

Aniracetam: improves cognitive functioning and memory in patients with early Alzheimer’s disease

Caffeine: increases alertness, improves reaction time, facilitates the ability to process information

CDP-choline: improves memory functioning in elderly persons

DMAE: enhances cognitive functioning in children with ADHD

Ginkgo Biloba: has beneficial effects on Alzheimer’s patients’ cognitive functioning, has a positive effect on memory in healthy people

Ginseng: improves attention and reaction time

Huperzine A: has beneficial influences on memory functioning and general cognitive functioning in patients with early senility due to Alzheimer’s disease

Idebenone: improves cognitive functioning in patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and slows the progression of Alzheimer’s disease

Niacin: improves cognitive functioning of patients with various types of dementia, improves information processing and short-term memory in healthy young and middle-aged people

Oxiracetam: improves memory and attention in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, multi-infarct dementia, and dementia of unspecified origin

Phosphatidylserine: improves memory and attention in both senile patients and healthy elderly people experiencing mild memory problems

Piracetam: slightly slows the rate at which short-term and long-term memory deteriorates in Alzheimer’s patients, improves memory in patients with age associated memory impairment when administered in conjunction with memory training

Pramiracetam: enhances the recovery of memory function in brain injured patients

Pyridoxine: improves memory storage in elderly men

Thiamine: improves emotional and cognitive functioning in mildly impaired Alzheimer’s patients

Vinpocetine: improves cognitive functioning in senile patients

Vitamin E: slows disease progression in moderately impaired Alzheimer’s patients

Deep Nutrition

Deep Nutrition is a book written by Dr. Cate Shanahan with Luke Shanahan. This post has notes featuring some of the studies mentioned in the book.

• Low-fat diets have been shown to reduce intelligence in animals.

• Women with vitamin B deficiencies give birth to children prone to developing weak bones and diabetes.

• A study found that children whose grandmothers smoked while pregnant were 1.8 times more likely to develop asthma, even if the mother had never smoked.

• Children with suboptimal skull architecture may have narrow airways, leading to nasal irritation, allergies, or sleep apnea.

• Less attractive people rate themselves as less popular, less happy, and less healthy. They are more depressed more often, spend more time in jail, and are less well paid as adults than their more attractive peers.

• Research shows that women with an hourglass body type live the longest and apple-shaped women have the shortest life spans.

• Children of subsequent births are at higher risk for disease, from cancer to diabetes to low IQ and birth defects.

• A study showed that one in three pregnant women consuming what mainstream research suggests would be a healthy diet nevertheless gave birth to babies with dangerously low levels of vitamin A.

• A large study in the USA showed that pregnant women who take prenatal pills still develop deficits of niacin, thiamin, and vitamins A/B6/B12 that persist throughout each of the three trimesters.

• Supplementing with cod liver oil during pregnancy increases the baby’s intelligence.

• Gestational deficiency of choline is associated with life-long learning deficits. A study found that 86 percent of college-age women were lacking adequate dietary choline.

• As Native Americans reduced their consumption of animal products, brain size dropped five percent in women and ten percent in men.

• Hunter-gatherers had teeth that were well aligned and free of caries, as well as phi-proportionate construction in the X, Y, and Z facial planes.

• Glucosamine can stimulate the growth of new, healthy collagen and help repair damaged joints.

• A study in Turkey traced dwarfism to low levels of zinc caused by unleavened bread consumption.

• Commercial soy foods have goitrogens and phytoestrogens that contribute to thyroid problems and reproductive disorders.

• Studies show that foods containing probiotics help to prevent allergic, autoimmune, and inflammatory diseases.

• Flour is often contaminated with mold toxins and allergenic proteins.

• Processed milks contain only one half to one sixth the bioavailable materials of fresh milk products.

• In 1900, heart disease was rare. By 1950, heart problems were killing more men than any other disease.

• Foods with fat in them enhance nutrient absorption.

• A study couldn’t locate any canola oil with a trans fat content lower than 1.2 percent.

• Studies demonstrate that even bottles of organic expeller-pressed canola oil contain as much as five percent trans fats, plus cyclic hydrocarbons (carcinogens) and oxyphytosterols (highly damaging to arteries).

• A study found that week-old frying oil from a restaurant inhibited endothelial function.

• A study found evidence of oxidative stress in the blood of women whose babies were born with congenital spinal and heart defects.

• Babies of mothers with low cholesterol are born smaller, with abnormally small brains.

• Research shows that mothers with uncontrolled diabetes have an increased likelihood of having children with birth defects.

• A study found that people whose fasting blood sugar was even the slightest bit above normal (defined as 100 mg/dl) when admitted to the hospital with a heart attack were up to  five times more likely to die in the next year than heart attack victims whose levels were normal.

• An experiment involving rats found that sugar is more addictive than cocaine.

• A study found that infants who received sugar in their first seven days of life suffered neurological effects that were still measurable when the study ended eleven weeks later.

• A study found that the more sugar people tended to consume, the less they were able to taste it.

• The Nurses’ Health Study showed that a mere two percent increase in trans fat consumption correlated with a forty percent increase in insulin resistance and diabetes.

• Fat produces pro-inflammatory factors that stimulate its own growth.

• Research indicates that exercise is as effective as antidepressant medications.

• A study of sedentary older adults ages 60 to 79 found that exercise led to significant increases in brain volume.

• A study found that high-intensity interval training for only 15 minutes total over the course of two weeks doubled exercise capacity.

• Research shows that people with weak collagen experience more injuries throughout their lives.

• Glycosaminoglycans adhere to collagen and improve the health of tendons and skin.

• Vitamin A, vitamin C, glutathione, glucosamine, and omega-3 fatty acids have each been shown to reduce collagen damage from UV radiation by up to 80 percent.

The Anti-Aging Solution

The Anti-Aging Solution is a book by Dr. Vincent Giampapa, co-founder of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. This post has notes featuring some of the studies mentioned in the book.

• Research found that Chlamydia infection was associated with arterial plaque, angina, heart attack, and stroke.

• A study in Austria found that microbes causing chronic respiratory, urinary tract, dental, and other infections amplified the risk of developing arterial plaque and also led to autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.

• A study in Finland found that those who had the most job-related stres were over twice as likely to die of a heart attack as those in low-stress jobs.

• The Framingham Heart study found that the combination of smoking and being overweight shortened life span by 13 years.

• A study found that when obese subjects lost 26 percent of their initial weight, their TNFa and mRNA levels dropped by 42 percent, while TNF protein dropped by 54 percent.

• Research found that the sulfur compounds in certain foods (cruciferous vegetables, mustard vegetables, onions, garlic) induce protective enzymes known as phase 2 detoxifying enzymes including superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase.

• Research found that indoles in cruciferous vegetables inhibit colorectal, bladder, lung, mouth, throat, stomach, and breast cancers.

• Isothiocynates inhibit enzymes that promote glycation and formation of advanced glycation end-products.

• Research in Scotland discovered that indoles and isothiocyanates from cruciferous vegetables protect DNA from damage.

• Research found that ellagic acid inhibits DNA topoisomerase I & II and thus prevents DNA damage.

• A study found that when healthy subjects were fed a diet containing 5 to 15 percent of their total daily calories as polyunsaturated oils, their rate of DNA damage increased significantly. This could be prevented by taking 240 IU of vitamin E daily.

• A study found that yoga improves nerve conduction in type 2 diabetics.

• A study involving men and women with an average age of 53 years found that a training program using superslow reps produced a 50 percent greater increase in muscle strength than regular-speed reps.

• A study found that men who ranked in the upper third of oxygen intake had a 75 percent lower risk than sedentary men of developing metabolic syndrome.

• A study that involved men and women ages 60 to 83 years found that high intensity training led to increased bone mass and increased osteocalcin.

• A study of middle-age women found that impulsive anger but not neurotic anger is a predictor of high triglycerides.

• Research has found that the carboxy alkyl ester extract of cat’s claw enhances immune function, enhances antibody response to vaccination, slows growth of leukemic cells, enhances DNA repair (when combined with niacin/carotenes/zinc)

• A study of seven men and seven women with an average age of 60 years showed that a combination of carboxy alkyl esters and medicinal mushroom extracts led to dramatic improvement in several inflammatory conditions. DNA damage was also reduced and DNA repair capacity was increased.

• A study in Belgium found that men living in a town with greater exposure to agricultural chemicals had significantly lower testosterone levels.

• An in vitro test demonstrated that carboxy alkyl esters enhanced DNA repair by 79.4 percent and the number of sunburned skin cells was reduced by 95.5 percent.

• A study of men and women ages 40 to 70 found that DHEA supplementation was associated with a significant increase in perceived physical and psychological well-being.

• A study of DHEA supplementation found that men gained physical strength as demonstrated by knee extension/flexion, increased lean muscle mass, and reduced body fat.

• A study of men with an average age of 67 found that DHEA enhanced activity of immune cells.

• A study found that DHEA supplementation led to a significant increase in insulin sensitivity in middle-aged women.

• An animal study showed that rats exposed to the carcinogen safrole sustained 41 to 99 percent less DNA damage when they were given melatonin prior to exposure.

The Anti Inflammation Zone

The Anti Inflammation Zone is a book by Dr. Barry Sears. This post has notes featuring some of the studies mentioned in the book.

• The Lyon Diet Heart Study found that subjects who dramatically reduced their intake of omega-6 fatty acids experienced a 70 percent reduction in the number of fatal heart attacks compared to the group that ate a low-fat diet that was nonetheless rich in omega-6 fatty acids.

• Tests that measure the ratio of AA to EPA can be used to check the silent inflammation profile.

• The ideal silent inflammation profile is 1.5 and the ideal fasting insulin (ulU/mL) is 5.

• Studies show that the Japanese people who have the longest life span, the longest health span, the lowest rates of heart disease, and the lowest rates of depression have an average SIP of about 1.5

• A study found that those who had a low TG/HDL ratio – even if they smoked, were sedentary, or had high LDL cholesterol or hypertension – had half the risk of developing heart disease than those with a high TG/HDL ratio who had no other risk factors for heart disease.

• Studies from Harvard Medical School indicate that patients with a high TG/HDL ratio can be up to sixteen times more likely to suffer a heart attack than those with a low TG/HDL ratio.

• Studies at Harvard Medical School show that the higher the glycemic load of a person’s diet, the more likely they are to become obese, develop diabetes, and suffer a heart attack. This is due to the greater levels of silent inflammation that occur with higher glycemic load diets.

• Research shows that those who take fish oil without taking in adequate amounts of antioxidants can develop decreased blood levels of vitamin E over time.

• A study found that extra-virgin olive oil is the best antioxidative supplement to reduce excessive oxidation from fish oil.

• A study found that individuals who were physically fit but overweight were significantly less likely to develop heart disease than those who were of normal weight but less physically fit. Those who were of normal weight and physically fit had even lower levels of cardiovascular risk.

• A study found that consuming 1.8 grams of pure DHA per day for twelve weeks decreased the insulin resistance in overweight patients by 70 percent.

• A study found that people with type 2 diabetes had significant reductions in both blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin levels on the Zone Diet.

• Animal studies show that giving high doses of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids blocks the calcium channels in the heart cells and prevents a deadly influx, even if the heart cells are deprived of oxygen.

• Data from the Framingham study showed that high total cholesterol levels after age forty-seven appeared to have no impact on cardiovascular death.

• Data from the MONICA study showed that subjects in France with cholesterol levels of around 240 mg/dl had only one-fifth the number of fatal heart attacks as subjects in Finland who had the same cholesterol levels.

• A study indicated that the number of patients who developed breast cancer was significantly greater in patients taking statins than in those who got the placebo.

• The GISSI trial in Italy found that patients who had already suffered a heart attack had a 45 percent reduction in their risk of having a sudden fatal heart attack after they started taking fish oil supplements.

• A study found that not a single sudden cardiac death occurred in a group of subjects who ate a low glycemic-load and low omega-6 fatty acid diet.

• A study found that a low-fat vegetarian diet increased the TG/HDL level and increased the risk of heart attack.

• Studies have found that eating fish helps slow the metastatic spread of prostate cancer.

• A study of patients with cachexia found that they gained weight when given high levels of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids.

• A study of patients who had advanced pancreatic cancer found that they survived far beyond what was predicted when they supplemented with high doses of fish oil.

• Epidemiological studies from Italy found that those who followed diets rich in starches were at increased risk of cancer compared to those who had a lower glycemic-load diet.

• Data from the Framingham Heart Study shows that patients who had the lowest levels of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids in their blood had a 67 percent greater likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

• A study found that individuals who consume the most pro-inflammatory omega-6 fatty acids have a 250 percent increase in the development of Alzheimer’s.

• A study in Canada found that the silent inflammation profile in Alzheimer’s patients was nearly twice as high as that found in a healthy control group.

• Research discovered that middle-aged men who have a high level of C-reactive protein are at a 300 percent increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s twenty-five years later.

• A study in Norway involving multiple sclerosis patients found that the number of MS attacks decreased by 90 percent in the first year when they decreased their average silent inflammation profile from 6 to 1.5

• Studies indicate that giving EPA and DHA to children with ADD results in a trend toward improved behavior.

• Populations who eat a lot of fish (Greenland Inuit and the Japanese) have very low rates of depression. New Zealanders, who eat the least amount of fish in the industrialized world, have fifty times the rate of depression as the Japanese.

• Clinical studies in Europe indicate that the lower the levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the blood, the greater the incidence of depression.

• A study found that bipolar patients who took approximately 10 grams per day of EPA and DHA had a significant stabilization in their symptoms.

• Studies have found that violent prison inmates have lower levels of DHA in their blood than nonviolent prison inmates. When prison inmates are given supplements of fish oil, violence decreases.

• A study of mice bred to develop lupus found that they lived much longer when supplemented with high-dose fish oil.

• Long-term studies in patients with IgA nephropathy have demonstrated a dramatic reduction in the development of kidney failure in patients who used high-dose fish oil.

• A one-year clinical study showed that dieters are able to stick to the Zone Diet more easily than to either high-carbohydrate or low-carbohydrate diets.

The Emperor’s New Drugs

The Emperor’s New Drugs is a book by Dr. Irving Kirsch, a professor of psychology at the University of Hull. The book describes the ineffectiveness of popular antidepressants and the power of the placebo effect. This post has notes featuring the results of some of the studies cited in the book.

• Research indicates that effective treatments for depression work by altering the sense of hopelessness that comes from being depressed about having depression.

• A meta-analysis of trials using SSRIs, tricyclic antidepressants, and other types of antidepressants showed that only 25 percent of the improvement in symptoms of depression was due to the effect of the drug.

• A study of antidepressants showed that 80 percent of patients accurately identified whether they were on the drug or placebo, and doctors guessed correctly in 87 percent of the cases.

• An analysis showed that 60 percent of patients responded to antidepressants in comparator trials, but only 46 percent were rated as improved in placebo-controlled trials.

• The correlation between side effects and improvement when taking fluoxetine is 0.96

• An analysis of all the published and unpublished clinical trials on paroxetine showed that after adjusting for drug-placebo differences in side effects, differences in rates of improvement were no longer statistically significant.

• In 78 percent of clinical trials in which active placebos were used, there were no significant differences between the drug and the placebo.

• An analysis suggested that as many as 40 percent of clinical trials of antidepressants are not published.

• An analysis of unpublished as well as published studies showed that 82 percent of the response to medication had also been produced by an inert placebo, meaning that less than 20 percent of the response to antidepressant medication is a drug effect.

• An analysis of dose-response trials showed that there was no difference between the effect of a high dose of antidepressants and the effect of a low dose.

• A trial that involved switching to another antidepressant if the first one didn’t work showed that 67 percent of the patients recovered. However, 93 percent of the patients who recovered relapsed or dropped out of the trial within a year.

• An analysis showed that approximately 75 percent of drug-company studies showed favorable results for their own drugs, but only 25 percent of them showed favorable results for the product of a competing company. In studies that were not sponsored by a drug company, the success rate was about 50 percent.

• A meta-analysis showed that the largest decrease in depressive symptoms occurred by the end of the first week of treatment.

• Patients who are being treated with antidepressants show a type of vulnerability to relapse that isn’t shown by recovered patients who were treated without drugs.

• A study that compared paroxetine and imipramine to placebo showed that those who had been treated by placebos were the least depressed.

• Eight long-term continuation trials show that placebo treatment was 95 percent as effective as drug treatment.

• An analysis showed that 37 of 38 drug-company clinical trials that had positive results were published, while most of the 36 trials showing negative or questionable results were not published.

• An analysis of 40 placebo-controlled studies of paroxetine showed that the placebo was 83 percent as effective as the real drug.

• A meta-analysis showed that lowering the level of serotonin, norepiephrine, or dopamine did not affect mood in healthy volunteers who had never been depressed.

• About half of depressed patients in remission who are taking SSRIs relapse when serotonin is depleted.

• Clinical trial data show that tianeptine (which decreases the amount of serotonin in the brain) is as effective as SSRIs and tricyclic antidepressants.

• A study of intellectually disabled adults showed that antipsychotics led to a 60 percent decrease in aggressive behavior, compared to an 80 percent reduction in those given a placebo.

• A neuroimaging study showed that the change in brain activity in patients who recovered from depression was the same whether the subject had taken fluoxetine or placebo.

• A study of depressed patients taking antidepressants showed that those who expected before treatment to feel better after treatment improved the most, while those who did not expect to feel better improved the least.

• A study identified changes in regional brain activity during the placebo run-in period that predicted improvement when patients were given medication.

• Anywhere from half of patients to the vast majority of patients experience at least one adverse side effect from SSRIs.

• An analysis from the FDA concluded that SSRIs double the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in depressed patients up to the age of 24.

• A study of patients who had attempted suicide while taking fluoxetine and were then taken off the drug showed that they developed severe akathisia when restarting the drug.

• Abrupt SSRI withdrawal can produce symptoms of depression and anxiety within hours of the first missed dose of the drug.

• Psychotherapy outperforms antidepressants in both severely and mildly depressed patients.

• A study showed that 60 percent of patients who had been given ten sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy were symptom-free, compared to only 10 percent of patients who only expressed their feelings in therapy.

• A review of 29 clinical trials of St. John’s Wort involving more than 5,000 depressed patients showed that it is more effective than placebo and as effective as antidepressants.

• A study showed that exercise was more effective than SSRI treatment ten months after treatment was started.

• A study of psychotherapy showed that more than 85 percent of depressed patients spontaneously brought up issues relating to inadequate financial resources, difficult working conditions, or unemployment.

• A study showed that problem-solving therapy was as effective as escitalopram for preventing depression in patients who suffered a stroke.

Curing the Incurable

Curing the Incurable is a book written by Dr. Thomas Levy. The book describes the benefits of vitamin C in preventing and treating a wide variety of diseases. For each condition, the book lists whether it is curable, preventable, and/or treatable when vitamin C is administered. The book cites over 1,200 scientific references which can be examined further in PubMed, Google Scholar, or at a medical library. It’s important to note that some of these treatments used injectible vitamin C rather than oral vitamin C. Also, the use of vitamin C in treating some diseases and forms of poisoning may only have been performed in animal experiments and still need to be tested in human studies. This is nevertheless a fascinating body of research. The book also discusses why large doses of vitamin C are safe.

Dr. Levy’s books are available at this link: http://www.tomlevymd.com/books.html

The book has much more information on preventing and treating the following conditions:

• polio

• viral hepatitis

• measles

• mumps

• viral encephalitis

• chickenpox and herpes infections

• viral pneumonia

• influenza

• rabies

• AIDS

• the common cold

• ebola virus

• diphtheria

• pertussis

• tetanus

• tuberculosis

• streptococcal infections

• leprosy

• typhoid fever

• malaria

• brucellosis

• trichinosis

• amebic dysentery

• bacillary dysentery

• pseudomonas infections

• Rocky Mountain spotted fever

• staphylococcal infections

• trypanosomal infections

Vitamin C is also potential antidote for these toxins:

• acetaminophen

• acetanilide

• alcohol (ethanol)

• aniline

• antipyrine

• acrolein

• aflatoxin

• allyl alcohol

• aluminum

• amphetamine

• aromatic hydrocarbons (anthracene and 3,4-benzpyrene)

• arsenicals

• barbiturates

• benzathrone

• benzene

• cadmium

• carbon monoxide

• carbon tetrachloride

• chloramphenicol

• chloroform

• chromium

• cisplatin

• cyanides

• cyclophosphamide

• cyclosporine

• digoxin

• diquat

• dopamine

• doxorubicin

• endosulfan

• endotoxin

• fluorine (fluoride)

• halogenated ethers

• hydrazine sulfate

• iproniazid

• isoproterenol

• lead poisoning

• mancozeb

• mercury

• methanol

• methemoglobinemia

• N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)

• methylmalonic acid

• morphine

• mushroom poisoning

• nickel

• nicotine

• nitrates and nitrites

• nitrogen dioxide

• ochratoxin

• ofloxacin

• organochlorine pesticide

• organophosphorus pesticide

• ozone

• paraquat

• phencyclidine

• phenol

• phosphamidon

• polychlorinated biphenyl compounds (PCBs)

• porphyrins

• quinone compounds

• radiation toxicity

• rubidium

• selenium

• strontium

• strychnine

• sulfa drugs

• tetanus toxin

• tetracycline

• thallium

• thioacetamide

• valproic acid

• vanadium

• venoms

Superfruits

Superfruits is a book written by Dr. Paul Gross. The book describes the health benefits of  an assortment of nutrient-rich fruits. This post has notes featuring the results of some of the studies referenced in the book.

• Studies of freeze-dried black raspberries show that they inhibit cancer in the rat esophagus by 30 to 60 percent and in the rat colon by almost 80 percent.

• A study showed that loss of bone mineral density was inversely related to dietary carotenoid intake.

• Studies in rats indicate that diets high in blueberries, strawberries, and blackberries may protect against neurodegenerative diseases.

• An experiment showed that mango extracts improved neurological function in rats.

• Laboratory studies show that D-limonene has anticancer activity.

• Goji berries inhibit beta-amyloid toxicity in neuronal cell cultures.

• A study showed that the polyphenols in cabernet sauvignon and muscadine grapes inhibited amyloid protein deposits in mice.

• A study of two thousand elderly Japanese Americans showed that moderate consumption of purple grape juice or red wine improved cognitive abilities.

• Studies show that cranberry juice inhibits Helicobacter pylori colonization.

• A study showed that immune biomarkers were increased in mice after twenty days of eating gold kiwifruit.

• Papain is being studied in clinical trials for treating leg venous ulcers.

• A study showed that papaya seeds could treat intestinal parasites.

• A study showed that blueberry extract slowed and even reversed age-related problems in rats.

• A study shosed that tart cherry extract reduced inflammatory pain and edema as effectively as indomethacin.

• A study showed that seaberry pulp powder reduced symptoms of cardiovascular disease in rats.

• A study showed that blackcurrants decreased allergy biomarkers.

• A study showed that date pit extracts inhibited the infection rate of Pseudomonas phage bacteria.

• Clinical trials are being conducted on using pomegranate juice to treat prostate cancer.

• Test-tube studies have showed that acai anthocyanins inhibited the growth of leukemia and colon cancer cells.

• Animal experiments show that arnoia lowers blood glucose and triglyceride levels, inhibits blood clotting, and treats inner eye inflammation.

• Laboratory experiments show that the Cape gooseberry has anti-inflammatory activity on tumors and inhibits eye inflammation.

• A study showed that Indian gooseberry extract reduced oxidative stress in patients with failing kidneys.

The Myth of Choice

The Myth of Choice is a book by Professor Kent Greenfield of Boston College Law School. The book describes some influences on human behavior and argues that the law must take findings from neuroscience into account. This post has notes featuring the results of some of the research cited in the book.

• As many as one in four New Orleans residents did not hear about the evacuation order before Hurricane Katrina hit. Only 20 percent of those who stayed had relatives or friends they could move in with.

• A study showed that someone standing next to an obese person is considered less attractive than when standing close to a thin person.

• A study showed that people who bought products from a bigger selection were less happy with their selection when asked about it later.

• The appeals court in the Odorizzi v. Bloomfield case concluded that a contract is not valid if it is a product of “persuasion which tends to be coercive… which overcomes the will without convincing the judgment.”

• Some legal scholars suggest that because consent is so undefined, the law should require contractual negotiation before sexual relations.

• The basal ganglia control actions that are barely conscious.

• A study showed that people who were trying to remember a longer series of digits were less likely to restrain themselves from eating cake.

• Cases are often won or lost based on the defendant’s intent.

• A study showed that people who had suffered damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex made decisions with less compassion and with more utilitarian rationality.

• An autopsy on Charles Whitman, who killed fourteen people in a sniper attack, showed that he had a tumor in his brain that was putting pressure on the amygdala.

• A study showed that men valued the future less and the present more after seeing pictures of beautiful women.

• A study showed that men were much more likely to seek immediate gratification after looking at an attractive woman if they had been told that their incomes were lower than the national average.

• A study showed that when test subjects looked at a product they wanted, there was increased blood flow to the nucleus accumbens.

• A study showed that scientists could predict lack of purchasing intent based on activity in the insula.

• Men systematically overestimate the sexual interest of potential mates.

• Two dozen University of Kentucky cheerleaders became pharmaceutical representatives over a period of several years.

• People tend to like things that are familiar and like them even more when under stress.

• Less attractive people receive harsher prison sentences.

• A study showed that African American students did worse on a test when they were primed beforehand by being asked about their race.

• The amygdala can respond to threatening stimuli without consciously registering the threat.

• Sales of a $279 bread maker doubled when a $429 bread maker was added to the lineup (even though the more expensive model didn’t sell very often).

• Studies indicate that people remember past experiences by condensing them to whatever was best or worst and whatever happened first and list.

• People who end their marriages remember them as worse than they actually were.

• Justice Antonin Scalia became visibly angry when his cultural assumptions were challenged in the Salazar v. Buono case.

• Americans are less willing to allow their children to marry atheists than any other group.

• More than 70 percent of Americans say they belong to the religion in which they were raised.

• Researchers at Ohio State and Santa Clara University confirmed the Milgram experiment findings about obeying authority.

• When people win at gambling, the brain experiences increased dopamine secretion and is unable to adapt due to the intermittent reinforcement of winning.

• At least twenty-three states have passed bills protecting fast-food companies from lawsuits.

• Agricultural subsidies make fast food cheaper than a salad and a bottle of water.

• The Supreme Court is dominated by jurists from Harvard and Yale who served on lower courts between Boston and Washington D.C.

• A study showed that seminarians who prepared to give a speech about helping those in need were no more likely to provide help to someone in distress. People who were in a hurry were less likely to help, while those who were not in a hurry were more likely to help.

• Research suggests that teenagers who take chastity pledges are more likely to engage in unsafe sex than teenagers who do not take a pledge.