Patterns of Facebook use of Tunisian youth

Facebook use in less studied cultural context.

Maintain existing relationships

Resurrecting past relationships.

Communicating views, attitudes, personal products, etc.

Sharing identities

civic engagement

strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations

transfer of knowledge

A digital divide measure (Chen and Wellman, 2004)

Highly integrated in the respondents’ daily life

More significant in the lives of females than males

Responses to media content: independently written articles or blog entries, analyses, critique, etc.

Group content creation: activities users engage in with likeminded people to support a cause, respond to media content, or as a response to social issues or problems.