PsychBook Research

Collecting and analysing psychological research on the most popular social networking site in the world today.

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Facebook Addiction and Loneliness

Lisa Haisha: Is Your Facebook Addiction a Sign of Loneliness? I’m sure this is the shape of things to come, though I am not completely won over by this article. It makes for interesting reading though.

18 April 2010 at 20:59 - Comments

Facebook puts faith in its software smarts to see off sexual predators | Technology | The Guardian

  Facebook puts faith in its software smarts to see off sexual predators Facebook puts faith in its software smarts to see off sexual predators | Technology | The Guardian

16 April 2010 at 23:49 - Comments

Facebook User Profiling

A presentation detailing the research which I intend to carry out in the immediate future…   Facebook User Profile on Prezi

27 February 2010 at 03:23 - Comments

Facemap! Amazing graphic of world’s profile connections

Pete Warden has mined over 200 million public Facebook profiles and interconnected through their friends and pages. What are the most popular fan pages in Ireland? You can see the map here. Rather unsurprisingly, 1. Petition to have IRELAND Vs FRANCE REPLAYED!!! Next up, perhaps not so patriotically, 2. The X Factor Then again, joyfully conforming to […]

12 February 2010 at 10:47 - Comments

Add/request/suggest – how many Facebook friends is best?

No more than twice the number archaeologically extrapolated from primates’ brains and but no less than would make a genetically unstable population! Otherwise people will think you are a narcissist or otherwise socially undesirable … which mightn’t be nice One factor that makes social networking rather different from offline socialising – and what seems to […]

13 November 2009 at 20:09 - Comments