Self-Disclosure on Social Network Sites in Adolescents: The Exploratory Study of Thai Students

Online media increase popularity among adolescent as they are growing up with the development of technology, particularly “Internet”. Adolescent has higher rate of using Internet and email as source of information in comparison to other age group (world value survey collected during 2005-2007). Social Network sites (SNS) received popularity among these adolescents. They are transforming the nature of social relations (Greenfield at al. 2012). Recent studies show the positive side of using SNS such as facebook, which lead to improvement in psychological well being via emotional sharing (Buechel and Berger 2012) and through perceived social support (Kim and Lee 2011). This study aims at extent the current research by examining the effect of how communication and sharing strategies (positive vs. honest) lead to psychology well being among individual from different traits. (Introvert vs. extrovert).