TY - JOUR
T1 - How Users’ Perceptions of Friends’ Content Influence Their “Annoyance” After Viewing Facebook Posts
AU - Steers, Mai Ly N.
AU - Wickham, Robert E.
AU - Tabaczyk, Olivia M.
AU - Young, Chelsie M.
AU - Quist, Michelle C.
AU - Eikenburg, Lindsey B.
AU - Bryan, Jennifer L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023.
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - Social media posts may elicit strong, instantaneous feelings of irritation, or “annoyance.” The current experiment investigated how participants’ ratings of Facebook posts and their levels of closeness to the poster impacted these feelings. Respondents (N = 476) were asked to rate how irrelevant, inappropriate, mundane, and annoying Facebook posts from an imagined close friend, moderately close friend, and acquaintance were. A cross-classified, Bayesian structural equation model determined the unique contributions at the rater level, target level, and the distinct combination of rater and target at the within level. At the within level, results suggested irrelevance, mundaneness, and inappropriateness of posts were positively associated with annoyance. At the rater level, we found participants who tended to rate all posts as being more inappropriate, spent more time on Facebook, and/or reported having more Facebook friends, tended to report greater annoyance. Finally, at the target level, participants rated acquaintances’ posts as being more irrelevant and mundane relative to close friends. Contrary to expectations, posts from acquaintances did not appear to evoke more annoyance. Overall, a consistent finding between inappropriateness and annoyance emerged across all three levels such that inappropriate content posted to Facebook appeared to strongly elicit annoyance among users.
AB - Social media posts may elicit strong, instantaneous feelings of irritation, or “annoyance.” The current experiment investigated how participants’ ratings of Facebook posts and their levels of closeness to the poster impacted these feelings. Respondents (N = 476) were asked to rate how irrelevant, inappropriate, mundane, and annoying Facebook posts from an imagined close friend, moderately close friend, and acquaintance were. A cross-classified, Bayesian structural equation model determined the unique contributions at the rater level, target level, and the distinct combination of rater and target at the within level. At the within level, results suggested irrelevance, mundaneness, and inappropriateness of posts were positively associated with annoyance. At the rater level, we found participants who tended to rate all posts as being more inappropriate, spent more time on Facebook, and/or reported having more Facebook friends, tended to report greater annoyance. Finally, at the target level, participants rated acquaintances’ posts as being more irrelevant and mundane relative to close friends. Contrary to expectations, posts from acquaintances did not appear to evoke more annoyance. Overall, a consistent finding between inappropriateness and annoyance emerged across all three levels such that inappropriate content posted to Facebook appeared to strongly elicit annoyance among users.
KW - Affect-cognition interface
KW - Emotions
KW - Online relationships
KW - Social networking sites
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U2 - 10.1007/s12144-023-04260-6
DO - 10.1007/s12144-023-04260-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85147748411
SN - 1046-1310
VL - 43
SP - 745
EP - 756
JO - Current Psychology
JF - Current Psychology
IS - 1
ER -