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How Facebook might reveal users’ attitudes toward work and relationships with coworkers.

How Facebook Might Reveal Users… [Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2012] – PubMed – NCBI. With the spread of Facebook among people in many  countries, some companies have started using applicants’ Facebook profiles as a criterion of personnel selection, in an effort to identify good workers among job applicants. However, how using Facebook is connected to […]

2 January 2013 at 12:20 - Comments

A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage

I’ve been waiting for this one for a while – really looking forward to getting my hands on it. Such a tease of an abstract… From Computers in Human Behavior Social networking sites (SNS) are quickly becoming one of the most popular tools for social interaction and information exchange. Previous research has shown a relationship […]

6 December 2011 at 18:48 - Comments

Self-disclosure and student satisfaction with Facebook

Interesting new study in Computers in Human Behaviour about students and Facebook. All the research seems to be heading this way. The purpose of the current study was to extend existing research examining the specific motives for creating and maintaining Facebook, and to connect these motives to users’ levels of self-disclosure and satisfaction with Facebook. […]

5 December 2011 at 13:00 - Comments

ScienceDirect – Personality and Individual Differences : Why do people use Facebook?

Interesting new article – suggests that Facebook use is motivated from two basic needs – need to belong and need for self-presentation ScienceDirect – Personality and Individual Differences : Why do people use Facebook?.

28 November 2011 at 16:44 - Comments

A picture is worth a thousand words: A content analysis of Facebook profile photographs

This is rather odd: “None of the profile picture categories significantly differed by gender”. I would’ve thought there would be all kinds of gender differences in Facebook profile photographs. I suppose that depends on how they were coded…. ScienceDirect – Computers in Human Behavior : A picture is worth a thousand words: A content analysis […]

13 May 2011 at 19:49 - Comments