Virginia Tech. Department of Computer Science. Digital Library Research LaboratorySheetz, Steven D.Fox, Edward A.Fitzgerald, AndrewPalmer, SeanShoemaker, Donald J.Kavanaugh, Andrea L.2015-05-292015-05-292011Sheetz, Steven D., Edward A. Fox, Andrew Fitzgerald, Sean Palmer, Donald J. Shoemaker, Andrea Kavanaugh. "Why Students Use Social Networking Sites After Crisis Situations". Poster, 2011.http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52798Communities respond to tragedy by making virtuous use of social networking sites for a variety of purposes. We asked students to describe why they used a social networking site after the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, then evaluated their responses using content analysis. Students went predominantly to Facebook (99%). Most (59%) of the 426 students that responded went there because their friends were already there, and to find out if their friends were OK (28%) (and to let them know they were OK).application/pdfen-USIn CopyrightSocial networkingSocial mediaCrisesContent analysisQualitative dataPosterhttp://eventsarchive.org/sites/default/files/ISCRAM2011WhyFacebookPoster.pdf