Abstract
The purpose of the current research was to investigate Facebook discontinuance intentions in the Library and Information Science environment. The research model, building on the Theory of Planned Behavior, incorporated overload, fatigue, and self-efficacy, to understand the drivers behind users’ intention to stop using Facebook (either permanently or intermittently) or replace it with another social medium. Overall, the results suggest that participants are unlikely to abandon Facebook either on a permanent or a temporary basis, at least in the near future. Furthermore, users’ discontinuance intentions are primarily associated with evaluations about the consequences of their choice to abandon the medium.
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Notes
1 Covariances among the three exogenous variables (information-, communication-, and social overload) and error covariances of the three dependent variables (permanent discontinuance-, intermittent discontinuance-, and replacement intention) were omitted from Figure 2 for clarity purposes.