Author(s)

Zhengke Fu, Mengsi Yan

Corresponding Author

Zhengke Fu

Abstract

This research tries to probe how social network affect peoples’ usage of the communication network. In western country, the networked individualism has been studied for more than 10 years, but such research is still limited in Asia, also most of the current study only use specific group of people as their sample. This is the first study in China or Asia that use national sample. The snowball sampling and the third party research platform is used to get the sample in this study. The impact of social network on the personal communication system is discussed in the conclusion part.

Keywords

Social Network, Communication System, Mainland China