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Is Social Media Like An Onion?: Exploring The Social Penetration Theory As An Explanation For Viral Responses To Intimate Self-Disclosures, Kristina M. Kays, Rebekah E. Miles, Christopher J. Koch
Is Social Media Like An Onion?: Exploring The Social Penetration Theory As An Explanation For Viral Responses To Intimate Self-Disclosures, Kristina M. Kays, Rebekah E. Miles, Christopher J. Koch
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A recent public FB post about a personal experience with depression went viral within a week. Within a week this post was reposted on numerous media outlets, and shared by others nearly 500,000 times. This post skipped to the third, affective stage, of the Social Penetration Theory.