Title: How Social Media Promotes Social Connection

Contents

1. Provides two interesting from the peer-reviewed article below and offers reflection on these two points using other peer-reviewed journal articles. These points are based on promotion of social connection by social media websites, especially Facebook and Twitter

Bales, E., & Lindley, S. E. (2013). Supporting a sense of connectedness: Meaningful things in the lives of new university students. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013). 1137-46. New York, NY: ACM Press.

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