society. One of the major goals of the present study is to examine how social networking websites influence the quality of adolescent relationships. Ledbetter et al. (2010) examined relational closeness in terms of the theoretical constructs
of online self-disclosure and online social connection. Self-disclosure is defined as "any message about the self that a person communicates to another," (Wheeless & Grotz, 1976) as cited by Ledbetter et al. (2010), while social connection is defined as communication associated with positive relational outcomes (Ledbetter et al., 2010). Examples of online self-disclosure on