At present, social networking sites have provided an appropriate
context for advertisement. Previous studies have investigated the attitudes
toward advertisement in the traditional media and on the internet; however,
there has been little examination of attitudes towards social network
advertising. The very aim of the present study is to investigate the influential
factors affecting the attitudes towards social network advertising. To achieve
this aim, a structural model was formulated to analyse and test the factors
present among users of an Iranian social networking site. The results revealed
that factors such as entertainment, product information, social image, good for
the economy, credibility, interactivity, materialism, and value corruption affect
the attitudes towards social network advertising while the factor of irritation is
not influential