An exploration of the Facebook social networks of smokers and non-smokers.
Luella FuMegan A JacobsJody BrookoverThomas W ValenteNathan K CobbAmanda L GrahamPublished in: PloS one (2017)
This study illustrates the importance of examining structural differences in online social networks as a critical component for network-based interventions and lays the foundation for future research that examines the ways that social networks differ based on individual health behavior. Interventions that seek to target the behavior of individuals in the context of their social environment would be well served to understand social network structures of participants.