Gratifications on Social Networking Sites: The Role of Secondary School Students’ Individual Differences in Loneliness

Social networking sites, such as Myspace and Facebook, have become popular online communities with large teenage user populations who engage in social media to interact, play, explore, and learn. Research based on uses and gratifications theory has revealed that among the gratifications on social media most sought specifically by adolescents between 12 and 18 years old are meeting new people, satisfying teenagers’ need to belong, and being...