The purpose of this construct was to ascertain whether respondents are motivated to use Facebook
and Twitter to search for new people online or to connect with people with whom they already
have an offline relationship (Ellison et al., 2007; Johnston et al., 2013). Table 6 shows that the
Cronbach’s alpha for the construct ‘Offline to online: use of Facebook to connect with offline
contacts’ is 0.69 and is considered to be reliable (>0.6). Table 7 shows that the Cronbach’s alpha
for the construct ‘‘Offline to online: use of Twitter to connect with offline contacts” is 0.86 and is
considered to be highly reliable in supporting the construct. This indicates that Twitter is used to
connect with offline contacts more than Facebook is.