WECHAT USE TO FORM THE SOCIAL CAPITAL FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE
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Functional features of SNS attract user’s intention to use SNS. WeChat is the top SNS widely adopted by users in Chinese culture context. The objective of this paper is to examine how social capital of WeChat users are formed as the outcome of daily use of WeChat from the technology’s perspective. A new approach to interpret the continuance use intention as strategies of self-presentation and social support were introduced and investigated. The outcomes confirmed the continuance uses of WeChat have positive influence on the formation of individual’s social capital. It’s recommended that enterprise management needs to take a serious step into the initiate of WeChat kind of SNS Apps to promote customers.
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“ข้าพเจ้าและผู้เขียนร่วม (ถ้ามี) ขอรับรองว่า บทความที่เสนอมานี้ยังไม่เคยได้รับการตีพิมพ์และไม่ได้อยู่ระหว่างกระบวนการพิจารณาลงตีพิมพ์ในวารสารหรือแหล่งเผยแพร่อื่นใด ข้าพเจ้าและผู้เขียนร่วมยอมรับหลักเกณฑ์การพิจารณาต้นฉบับ ทั้งยินยอมให้กองบรรณาธิการมีสิทธิ์พิจารณาและตรวจแก้ต้นฉบับได้ตามที่เห็นสมควร พร้อมนี้ขอมอบลิขสิทธิ์บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ให้แก่สถาบันการจัดการปัญญาภิวัฒน์หากมีการฟ้องร้องเรื่องการละเมิดลิขสิทธิ์เกี่ยวกับภาพ กราฟ ข้อความส่วนใดส่วนหนึ่งและ/หรือข้อคิดเห็นที่ปรากฏในบทความข้าพเจ้าและผู้เขียนร่วมยินยอมรับผิดชอบแต่เพียงฝ่ายเดียว”
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