What are you actually doing, adding all those randoms? It seems that Facebook friendships are related to something called ‘social capital’ – you might say you’re stocking up on party dollars! But they’re probably not going to be much use… This research, from Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield and Cliff Lampe (2007, honestly didn’t make that […]
Facebook stalking? Dangerous? No! This was the first Facebook-related psychological article I came across when I started teaching on the Cyberpsychology M.Sc. – ‘More information than you ever wanted: Does Facebook bring out the green-eyed monster of jealousy?’ (Muise, Christofides and Desmaris, 2009). Obviously, even with as ham-fisted a title as that (the authors steadfastly […]
I am not sure if I will get the time to keep this up, but I am going to give it a shot. Basically, I hope this to become a repository for all of the psychological research that I am coming across about Facebook – it seems to be growing at an exponential rate. I’ll […]