such as increased information and opportunities, we suspect that participants who
use Facebook in this way are able to get more out of their college experience. The
suggestion that Facebook use supports a ‘‘poor get richer’’ hypothesis, as opposed to
the ‘‘rich get richer’’ findings reported in other contexts (Kraut, Kiesler, Boneva,
Cummings, Helgeson, & Crawford, 2002), may be of special interest to Internet
researchers.