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To avoid problems on social networking sites, people are warned not to identify their personal information, while it is said that if everyone uses SNSs under their real names, it will discourage inappropriate use. In fact, users use their real names when they intend to interact with others and anonymously when they intend to gather information. By allowing users to use their real names or anonymous names for different functions within the same application, could SNS be utilized to revitalize local communities? In this paper, we developed our own application and conducted social experiments with three groups in two regions. The results of the analysis suggest that when people who know each other offline communicate with each other in online communities, there are no age or regional differences in the use of functions that can be used anonymously, but there are regional differences in the use of functions that can only be used non-anonymously. In other words, the results indicate that when utilizing SNS for the purpose of revitalizing local communities, it is effective to implement functions that consider regional differences in social networks, even if people already know each other offline.
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The authors acknowledge and thank all participants of our social experiments for their cooperation in preparation of this paper. We received great help from Vitalify Asia Co. Ltd. in the development of the app. We would like to express our gratitude to Vitalify Asia Co. Ltd. This study was funded by JSPS Kakenhi (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) No. JP21K12554.
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Shiozu, Y., Arai, S., Aso, H., Ohara, Y., Inaba, I., Shimohara, K. (2023). Does Guaranteeing Anonymity in SNS Use Contribute to Regional Revitalization?. In: Mori, H., Asahi, Y. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35129-7_12
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