Relationship between Strength of Ties on Facebook and Reciprocity

Abstract

This paper shows relationship between strength of ties on Facebook and offline and online reciprocity as social capital by panel survey on Internet. The result is number of strength ties on Facebook have negative effect to online reciprocity, number of weakness ties on Facebook have positive effect to online reciprocity, and strength of ties that number of strength ties - number of weakness ties has positive effect to offline reciprocity.