Tutut Ardianti, Joel Faruk Sofyan
Jurnal Indonesia Sosial Teknologi, Vol. 5, No. 5, Mei 2024 2282
multimedia content, including their opinions about brands and products. Such content is
known as user-generated content, which has proven to be more popular and effective than
professional advertising (Aral et al., 2013).
The most popular content on TikTok is beauty products, one of which is Skintific
which has stolen a lot of attention from skincare lovers and has gone viral on social media
since the beginning of 2022. The commercial attraction of Skintific is qualified to make
individuals experience Fear of Missing Out (FOMO), the commercial in question is the
company's effort to make a profit (Hodkinson, 2019). According to (Yoga et al., 2022),
attractiveness as a condition of FOMO can increase purchase intention when individuals
anticipate positive outcomes. Therefore, companies must create attractive FOMO
marketing because it can provide opportunities to increase sales volume for companies
(Yoga et al., 2022).
To better understand consumer behavioral intentions, consumer attitudes towards
eWOM are important to analyse. Seeing the fact that TikTok is becoming a popular social
media, skincare brands have started using TikTok for their marketing strategies.
Because online recommendations and reviews or eWOM have a high influence on
consumers, it is interesting to examine the influence of eWOM on TikTok on skincare
purchase intention (Yones & Muthaiyah, 2023). EWOM is a form of computer-mediated
communication thus, the Information Adoption Model (IAM) can provide a strong
explanation regarding the eWOM adoption process and its consequences (Leung, 2022).
IAM offers five elements in its model, namely information qulity, information credibility,
information quantity, information usefulness, and information adoption, where these five
elements can affect purchase intention.
From the consumer's point of view, information quality influences them in the
decision-making process. The higher the information quality, the more it will help
consumers in evaluating the quality and performance of the brand (Filieri, 2015).
Information quality contributes positively to information usefulness (Yones &
Muthaiyah, 2023). (Filieri, 2015) also states that information credibility or accuracy
affects the ability to convince customers about which information is trustworthy and can
be used as a simple evaluation to make decisions that determine the usefulness of a
message. Information credibility has a positive relationship with information usefulness.
Information quantity or the number of times eWOM information is exposed to consumers,
can help consumers in evaluating the quality of (Filieri, 2015), brands, because the
number of people who provide reviews about products means that the product has good
sales and reduces doubts when buying products. (Ngarmwongnoi, Oliveira, AbedRabbo,
& Mousavi, 2020) show that information quality has been proven to be supported and has
an influence on information usefulness. Furthermore, information usefulness is
considered a major predictor of (Bae, Lee, Suh, & Suh, 2017) information adoption
purchase intent because people tend to engage with information when they find it useful.
Social media users, either intentionally or unintentionally, are exposed to very large
amounts of eWOM information,, and previous research has found that eWOM
information affects purchase intention. (Yones & Muthaiyah, 2023) Their research stated