Ellison, N.B., Gray, R., Lampe, C. & Fiore, A.T. (In press).
Social capital and resource requests on Facebook.
New Media & Society special issue: Ten years of Facebook.
| Facebook-specific bridging social capital | M (SD) |
| Interacting with people in my Facebook network makes me interested in things that happen outside of my town. | 3.77 (0.92) |
| Interacting with people in my Facebook network makes me want to try new things. | 3.53 (0.94) |
| Interacting with people in my Facebook network makes me interested in what people unlike me are thinking. | 3.49 (0.98) |
| Talking with people in my Facebook network makes me curious about other places in the world. | 3.60 (0.97) |
| Interacting with people in my Facebook network makes me feel like part of a larger community. | 3.62 (1.00) |
| Interacting with people in my Facebook network makes me feel connected to the bigger picture. | 3.57 (1.00) |
| Interacting with people in my Facebook network reminds me that everyone in the world is connected. | 3.73 (0.95) |
| Interacting with people in my Facebook network gives me new people to talk to. | 3.45 (1.03) |
| Through my Facebook network, I come in contact with new people all the time. | 3.33 (1.09) |
| Facebook-specific bonding social capital | M (SD) |
| There are several people in my Facebook network I trust to solve my problems. | 3.19 (1.10) |
| There is someone in my Facebook network I can turn to for advice about making very important decisions. | 3.57 (1.07) |
| There is no one in my Facebook network that I feel comfortable talking to about intimate personal problems. | 3.50 (1.14) |
| When I feel lonely, there are several people in my Facebook network I can talk to. | 3.57 (1.04) |
| The people I interact with on my Facebook network would put their reputation on the line for me. | 2.42 (1.20) |
| If I needed a very large emergency loan, I know someone in my Facebook network I could turn to. | 2.97 (1.01) |
| The people I interact with in my Facebook network would be good job references for me. | 3.21 (1.04) |
| The people I interact with in my Facebook network would share their last dollar with me. | 2.81 (1.10) |
| I do not know people in my Facebook network well enough to get them to do anything important. | 3.45 (1.01) |
Scale ranges from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree