Model I

Model II

Model III

β

β

β

Intercept

−50.992

−46.401

−53.174

Gender: male

0.103**

0.101**

0.103**

Age

0.256***

0.229***

0.224***

Internet use per day

0.011

0.038

0.042

Facebook use per day

0.149**

0.106*

0.090

Number of Facebook friends

0.167***

0.056

0.055

Members of extracurricular club

−0.093

−0.080

−0.073

Members of social group/org

0.065

0.058

0.052

Farmville history (Until now, how long you’ve been playing Farmville?)

0.467***

0.413***

0.385***

Number of Farmville neighbors

0.263***

0.252***

Use Farmville to connect with existing ties

−0.042

Use Farmville to link new people

0.128**

N = 430R2

F = 52.596***

F = 56.270***

F = 48.109***

0.490

0.537

0.547

(ΔR2)

0.047

0.010