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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

1 In 4 MBA Admissions Offices Probe Facebook

In a survey of US MBA schools, though not.enough to refuse admission, 22% of schools said they checked applicants Facebook profiles. More over at All Facebook… http://www.allfacebook.com/alert-1-in-4-mba-admissions-offices-probe-facebook-2011-09?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+allfacebook+%28Facebook+Blog%29

13 September 2011 at 08:14 - Comments

This may come in useful some day! HardlyWork.in

It turns your Facebook page into a spreadsheet HardlyWork.in.

5 July 2011 at 17:54 - Comments

Facebook vs. Google Plus: That’s +1 to Google

It’s probably not the best time to lash up a hastily planned blog post, being after 8pm on a Friday evening, and I really should be elswhere. But I’m sure you are all eager to hear what I think of Google’s new social network – positively frothing at the mouth, I expect. In that case, […]

1 July 2011 at 21:13 - 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