By the advent of Global Information Age, the social network service (SNS), represented by Campus SNS websites, has become an important approach of online communication for current college students. This article discusses the consequences of broad use of campus social network service among college students by conducting a survey on RenRen.com, which is an analogous website to Facebook.com and the most popular Campus SNS website in China. The paper presented the evidence that college students seek for social capital possession more intensively under the specified social environment which facilitate the emergence of SNS websites that focused on college student users. Meanwhile, these SNS websites play the role as medium for the social networks construction and social capital possession of college students.
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