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  • Social media platforms like Facebook can evoke strong emotional responses, including annoyance.
  • Understanding the factors influencing user annoyance is crucial for platform design and user well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how perceived post characteristics and relationship closeness influence annoyance on Facebook.
  • To determine the unique contributions of user-level, post-level, and interaction-level factors to annoyance.

Main Methods:

  • A Bayesian structural equation model was employed with 476 participants rating imagined Facebook posts.
  • Participants assessed posts from close friends, moderately close friends, and acquaintances on scales of irrelevance, inappropriateness, mundaneness, and annoyance.
  • A cross-classified model analyzed contributions at rater, target, and within-rater/target levels.

Main Results:

  • Post irrelevance, mundaneness, and inappropriateness were positively associated with annoyance.
  • Users who rated posts as more inappropriate, spent more time on Facebook, or had more friends reported greater annoyance.
  • Acquaintances' posts were rated as more irrelevant and mundane, but did not evoke significantly more annoyance than close friends' posts.

Conclusions:

  • Inappropriate content on Facebook is a strong predictor of user annoyance across different relationship levels.
  • User characteristics, such as time spent on the platform and network size, moderate annoyance levels.
  • While post characteristics and relationship closeness play a role, inappropriateness consistently drives annoyance.