| | Year | Authors | Motivations to use Facebook |
| | 2008 | Foregger | Pass time, connection, sexual attraction, utilities and upkeeps, establish/maintain old ties, accumulation, social comparison, and channel use and networking | | 2008 | Joinson | Connection, shared identities, photographs, content, social investigation, social network and surfing, and status updating | | 2008 | Raacke & Bonds-Raacke | Keep in touch with old friends, keep in touch with current friends, post/look at pictures, make new friends, locate old friends, learn about events, post social functions, feel connected, share information about oneself, and for academic purposes and/or dating purposes | | 2008 | Sheldon | Relationship maintenance, passing time, virtual community, entertainment, coolness, and companionship | | 2009 | Urista, Dong & Day | Efficient communication, convenient communication, curiosity about others, popularity, and relationship formation reinforcement | | 2010 | Bonds-Raacke & Raacke | Information, friendship, and connection | | 2010 | Gülnar, Balcı and Çakı | Narcissism and self-expression, media drenching and performance, passing time, information seeking, personal status, relationship maintenance, and entertainment | | 2010 | Quan-Haase & Young | Pastime, affection, fashion, share problems, sociability, and social information | | 2010 | Kim, Kim & Nam | Social motivation and non-social motivation | | 2011 | Baek et al. | Information sharing, convenience and entertainment, pass time, interpersonal utility, and control | | 2011 | Cheung, Chiu & Lee | Social identify, purpose value, self-discovery, maintaining interpersonal interconnectivity, social enhancement, entertainment value, and social presence | | 2011 | Hew | Maintain existing relationships, meet new people, fun, make oneself more popular, pass time, express or present oneself, learning, task management tool, and activism | | 2011 | Kim, Sohn & Choi | Seeking friends, social support, entertainment, information, and convenience | | 2011 | Zhang, Tang & Leung | Social surveillance, entertainment, recognition, emotional support, network extension, and maintenance | | 2012 | Alhabash et al. | Social connection, shared identities, photographs, contents, social investigation, social network surfing, and status updates | | 2012 | Gadekar, Krishnatray & Gaur | Relationship maintenance, user-friendliness, relaxation, connecting with old friends, and social interaction | | 2012 | Hew & Cheung | Keeping in touch with friends, entertainment, broadening the social network, expressing emotions, following the trend/crowd, and for fun/for the sake of having a Facebook account | | 2012 | Hunt, Atkin & Krishnan | Interpersonal utility, self-expression, entertainment, and passing time | | 2012 | Tosun | Maintain long-distance relationships, game playing/entertainment, active forms of photo-related activities, organizing social activities, passive observations, establishing new friendships, and initiating and/or terminating romantic relationships | | 2012 | Wang, Tchernev & Solloway | Emotional needs, cognitive needs, social needs, and habitual needs | | 2012 | Xu et al. | Coordination, disclosure, escape, immediate access, leisure, and stylishness | | 2013 | Alemdar & Köke | Social surveillance, recognition, emotional support, social connectivity, entertainment, narcissism and self-expression, ease to use, freedom and courage, and adaptation to new challenges | | 2013 | Balakrishnan & Shamim | Social networking, psychological benefits, entertainment, self-presentation, and skill enhancement | | 2013 | Chigona | Keeping in touch with friends, diversion (escape) and entertainment and pass time, find friends from past relationships by using the friends search function, voyeurism, self-expressing, and social utility | | 2013 | Dhaha & Igale | Virtual companionship and escape, interpersonal entertainment, self-description of own country, self-expression, information seeking, and passing time | | 2013 | Ku, Chen & Zhang | Information, entertainment, fashion, sociability, and relationship maintenance | | 2013 | Kwon, D’Angelo & McLeo | Information seeking, entertainment, communication, social relations, escape, and Facebook applications | | 2013 | Jackson & Wang | Keeping in touch with parents and other family members, keeping in touch with friends, connecting with people known but rarely seen, meeting new people, and obtaining information | | 2013 | Pai & Arnott | Belonging, hedonism, self-esteem, and reciprocity | | 2013 | Patra, Gadekar & Krishnatray | Relationship maintenance, user-friendliness, relaxation, and connecting with old friends | | 2013 | Whiting & Williams | Social interaction, information seeking, pass time, entertainment, relaxation, communicatory utility, convenience utility, expression of opinion, information sharing, and surveillance/knowledge about | | 2013 | Yang & Brown | Relationship formation and relationship maintenance | | 2014 | Alhabash, Chiang & Huang | Information sharing, self-documentation, social interaction, entertainment, passing time, self-expression, and medium appeal | | 2014 | Karimi et al. | Interpersonal utility, pass time, entertainment, information seeking, and convenience | | 2014 | Huang, Hsieh & Wu | Social gratifications | | 2014 | Luchman, Bergstrom & Krulikowski | Information seeking, focused entertainment, purposive driven fun, and socially driven fun | | 2014 | Giota & Kleftaras | Interpersonal utility, information seeking, entertainment, escape, and convenience | | 2014 | Park & Lee | Entertainment, relationship maintenance, self-expression, and communication | | 2015 | Basilisco & Cha | Seeking friends, entertainment, information, and convenience | | 2015 | Antoniadis, Koukoulis & Serdaris | Debating, socializing, expression, and entertainment | | 2015 | Rae & Lonborg | Information, friendship, and connection | | 2015 | Ahmad, Mustafa & Ullah | Communication and interaction, outward looking, and self-actualization | | 2016 | Briones & Janoske | Keeping in touch with others, help with work, and improving general knowledge | | 2016 | Goktalay & Ozdilek | Gaining knowledge, communication, acquire acquaintances, and be environment friendly | | 2016 | Ifinedo | Social enhancement, maintaining interpersonal interconnectivity, entertainment value, self-discovery value, and purposive value |
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