a measure of Internet use adapted from LaRose, Lai, Lange, Love, and Wu (2005),
and whether respondents were Facebook members or not. (These items are reflected
in Table 1 above.) We also included Facebook usage measures, such as time spent
using Facebook and items designed to assess whether Facebook was used to meet new
people or to establish an online connection to pre-existing connections. Our instrument
also included measures of subjective well-being and as well as three social
capital measures, which served as our dependent variables.