You Don’t Know Me But Can I Be Your Friend? Accepting Strangers as Friends in Facebook

Users in social networking sites, such as Facebook, are increasingly receiving friend requests from strangers. This study examines the effects of the Big Five personality traits (Neurotics vs. Extroversion vs. Openness vs. Conscientiousness vs. Agreeableness) and strangers’ gender in affecting Facebook users’ decisions to accept (or ignore) the stranger’s friend request. Results showed that gender of the stranger and the personality match between participant and stranger jointly affect the decision to accept the stranger as friend on Facebook. Most of the participants accepted the stranger’s friend request based on textual cues that were displayed in the friend request message. This finding supported Social Information Processing theory, suggesting that impression formation of the stranger was not constrained to the lack of nonverbal cues online. Moreover, participants were more likely to accept the stranger’s friend request when the participant’s and stranger’s personalities matched. This effect was more pronounced when the stranger was a female. Participants accepted female stranger’s friend request due to the inflated perception of stereotypical female characteristics, which supports the Hyperpersonal Perspective.

Strangers and Migrants in the Making of African Societies:A Conceptual and Historical Review

At the extremes,there are two forms of engagement with strangers—the anthropophagic,where outsiders are swallowed and digested,and the anthropoemic,where aliens are discarded,institutionalized,incarcerated or expelled.Using this dyad as a conceptual tool,I examine seven patterns of inclusion/exclusion in African societies,covering early agricultural societies,the formation of kingdoms,societies formed by refugees,strangers in pre-colonial cities,migrants in colonial cities,ethnic expulsions as a result of modem state formation and migrants in contemporary global cities.The aim of the article,based on an extensive review of secondary literature,is to add historical,comparative and typological elements to an often inadequate sociological and anthropological sensibility concerning hosts and strangers.

Sex with Strangers Dogging English Parks

英语词汇如何获得新的词义,本文似乎作了清晰的演绎。本文标题中的dogging,显然是“一直跟踪;尾随”的意思,如:A stranger then is still dogging us.(一个陌生人仍在跟踪我们。)但是,文中出现了另一个dogging,作者对它的释义是:The term“dogging”apparently comes from those who claim only to be“tak-ing the dog for a walk”-but are actually on the prowl(徘徊)for somethingmore.而这里的something more,即指标题中的Sex with Strangers。文章不乏此类隐晦的表达,另如:…and online message boards list the best parks and car-parks to watch people express themselves.其中的express themselves的真实含义,就值得我们三思玩味。

The Kindness of Strangers

The boy was six years old and he hated me. He sat on the opposite side of the rickshaw, grasping his mother tightly as he screamed and cried. The rick shaw driver looked back at us as he navi gated the winding alleyways on the outskirts of Huai’an, a small city in north

Strangers Meet on Shanghai's Bund

TODAY’s Shanghai is changing greatly day by day, year by year. I was quite astonished by these changes when I was there recently on assignment for our newspaper. The International Hotel had been the most modern building in the city ten years ago, but now it looked just so-so among the crowd of new buildings. The inner ring road has been built above countless shops and alleys. The Huangpu and Yangpu bridges have added to the elegance of this southern city, making it even more grand and beautiful. And a vast communications network has changed the face of the Bund entirely. Many Shanghai residents, who left for coastal cities when the policy of reform

Impact of Strangers on Opportunistic Routing Performance

Routing is one of the challenging tasks in Delay Tolerant Networks （DTNs）, due to the lack of global knowledge and sporadic contacts between nodes. Most existing studies take a greedy scheme in data forwarding process, i.e., only nodes with higher utility values than current carriers can be selected as relays. They lack an in-depth investigation on the main features of the optimal paths in Epidemic. These features are vital to any forwarding scheme that tends to make a trade-off between packet delivery delay and cost. This is mainly because Epidemic provides an upper bound on cost and a lower bound on delivery delay. Therefore, a deep understanding of these features is useful to make informed forwarding decisions. In this paper, we try to explore these features by observing the roles of different social relationships in the optimal paths through a set of real datasets. These datasets provide evidence that strangers have two sides in data forwarding process, and that the importance of strangers shows a decreasing trend along the forwarding paths. Using this heuristic knowledge, we propose STRON, a distributed and lightweight forwarding scheme. The distributed feature makes it very suitable for opportunistic scenarios and the low communication and computation features make it easy to be integrated with state-of-the-art work. The trace-driven simulations obviously confirm its effectiveness, especially in terms of packet delivery delay and cost.

Peace, Peace to the Far and the Near： Who Comes First？

Peace＇s gift when you meet the other is not a polite phrase. This is courtesy or politeness which institutes a priority order： first the far, then the near. In Levinas＇ thought, there is a peace of pure rest, ＂at home＂ and a peace which questions my own identity. A fair peace is a peace where the foreigner goes before me. ＂Close peace is my responsibility for the other man,＂ says Levinas. It is an ＂ethical＂ peace, different from political peace. Peace comes from my own responsibility for the other, until it could die for him. Maybe this welcome will seem crazy, but it is moderated, i.e., involved and estimated in politics. Levinas knows the political moment. But he puts it to its place： to welcome the strangers is an objective fact. Proximity of social link and perspective of far cannot be separated. It＇s a matter of politics and right.

Imagological Topoi in Balkan Literatures

The purpose of this text is to research dominant/typical images which have been constructed in the process of the perception and representation of the stranger in Balkan literatures, and reciprocally, the images that strangers constructs for the Balkan in the same literary context. Under conditions where Balkan literatures have been treated as an alternative history of the Balkan, the author intends to see the role and power of literary work in creation, in changing or rejecting the image for/of the Other/stranger. The analysis covers several areas： the dominant position of image constructions; acts of invention an in（ter）vention; forming and transforming the images of the stranger; the role of stereotypes and prejudice in constructing images; the role of the discursive communities in creating images; and the role of the projective ideology in creating images.

Not a simple dress

“Do you like my dress?” she asked of a passing stranger.“My mommy made it just for me,” she said with tears in her eyes.“Well,I think it’s very pretty, so tell me, little one,why are you 1 ?” In a 2 voice the little girl answered,etAfter Mommy 3 me this dress,she had to go away.”“Well, now,” said the lady,“with a little girl like you 4 for her,I’m sure she’ll be right back.”

From Stranger to Admirer

A Chinese agronomist＇s three-year stint in Nigeria taught him how to go from ＂culture shock＂ to ＂culture appreciation＂ .

Point of Return

A phone call from a stranger changed Rezia Rahman’s life as well as the lives of dozens of others in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Can Hugging a Stranger Help Break Down Social Barriers?

For most Westerners, hugging is a perfectly acceptable way of greeting people, making

STRANGER DANGER——DISTURBING"HISSED CONNECTIONS"VIDEO EXPOSES A LACK OF STALKING PROTECTION

"If I can't use normal channels,I'll [find her]some other was" Mr.Sun vowed to the camera,alarming millions of viewers who've followed the story of his obsession with a fellow shopper at a Beijing bookstore via a series of viral Pear Video cfips since mid-December.