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In the article The relationship between unwillingness-to-communicate and students’ Facebook use Sheldon wanted to produce some knowledge on the social problem concerning people who are unwilling to communicate in face-to-face interpersonal communication and who view this type of communication as unrewarding. Sheldon hypothesized that people who are unwilling-to-communicate orally would be more likely to communicate through the social media site, Facebook. Past research has demonstrated that Internet users who steer clear of socialising face-to-face chose the Internet as another way of fulfilling their interpersonal needs, and that alienation, introversion and trepidation when it comes to communicating led to higher use and reliance on communication through the Internet. However, there has been very little investigation done on the characteristics of people who use Facebook. Studying online networking and relationships is important because today’s generation spend so much time onl...