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Netlife at and beyond Facebook

Understanding the determinants of users’ subjective well-being in social networking sites: an integration of social capital theory and social presence theory

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Pages 720-729 | Received 27 Jun 2015, Accepted 09 Jan 2016, Published online: 15 Feb 2016

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