You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide (Your Profile)
I love how the study asks students to come up with a real profile, and a less-than-truthful one, and being engineering students, they showed they couldn’t really make much of a difference. Also, that females had more friends than males, almost 2 for 1, not a surprise to me…
No Lie! Your Facebook Profile Is the Real You
College-age users of Facebook in the United States and a similar social networking site in Germany typically present accurate versions of their personalities in online profiles, says psychologist Mitja Back of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. People use online social networking sites to express who they really are rather than idealized versions of themselves, Back and his colleagues conclude in an upcoming Psychological Science.
Facebook is so true to life, Back claims, that encountering a person there for the first time generally results in a more accurate personality appraisal than meeting face to face, going by the results of previous studies.
In a 2009 study of Facebook use among 92 college students, Calvert’s team found that young women reported a whopping average of 401 online friends, while young men reported an average of 269.
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