Determinants of Continuance Intention to Use Social Networking Sites SNS’s: Studying the Case of Facebook

摘要

The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived trust, perceived enjoyment, and subjective norms on users’ satisfaction and continuance intention to use Facebook in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan. Using a structured questionnaire, the primary data was collected from 584 users’ who have an active Facebook accounts. Multiple regression analysis was employed to test the research model and hypotheses. The research findings indicated that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived trust, perceived enjoyment, and subjective norms have a positive and significant effect on users' satisfaction and continuance intention to use Facebook. The findings also indicated that the strongest predictors, based on beta values, on both users’ satisfaction and continuance intention to use Facebook is subjective norms, and respectively; perceived enjoyment, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived trust. Research results, recommendations, and future research opportunities are also discussed.