This study used Taiwan Communication Survey Database conducted in 2015 as a
source of data analysis to explore the relationship between Taiwan’s people use of
“social media” and their “social network heterogeneity”, as well as the relationship
between people's “social network heterogeneity" and their "polarization of political
opinions”. This study suggests that: (1) people who use social media to understand
public affairs will tend to be more heterogeneous social networks; (2) people with
more heterogeneous interpersonal social networks, their political opinions about
national identity will tend to be more likely on standing the middle position
(i.e. "status quo”) rather than the "polarizing political opinions" (i.e., Taiwan
Independence or China Unification)