Status on Facebook can reveal your personality

Statuses on Facebook are closely related to bad traits.

If you think your friend is "someone who knows only yourself" , try to understand the status of her Facebook.

According to a new study published online in October, researchers discovered 'Dark Triad' in human psychological characteristics by analyzing the words of an updated status on Facebook.

Dark Triad is a bad personality group, which can be harmful to society, including three personality traits: personality disorder, self-love, and enthralling.

The data provided by Facebooks users helped to characterize researchers' personalities.'Facebook has made the human revolution interact with the Internet and offers great opportunities for psychological research' , researcher Danilo Garcia of Sahlgrenska Academy in Sweden said in a press release.

Facebook research

To advance this research, researchers sent personality tests to more than 300 Americans and asked them to provide the 15 most recently updated statuses on Facebook.

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This personality test requires participants to answer questions to test specific characteristics, such as: the degree of outwardness of participants, the degree of neurological excitability and strokes. personality in the Dark Triad group.

After receiving the test results, the scientists continue to analyze words in the states on Facebook, based on the algorithm that measures the importance of specific words prepared by Sverker Sikström of Lund University.

The results of this analysis are combined with general information of users, such as how often they update their status and the number of Facebook friends.

Finally, the researchers found a close relationship between analyzing words in status on Facebook predictions and previous personality test results.

"This study has shown that behaviors such as self-PR, showing indifference, satisfaction, or aggressiveness are shown when individuals post their current status in writing on Facebook ', Garcia. presented in the presentation for research.

People who are positive for psychosis often post negative or very odd states including information that directly addresses violence or sexuality.

Meanwhile, those who love themselves too much, always think that they are the best tend to show off their good points directly or indirectly, to be praised by others.

Disadvantages of research

What is perhaps most interesting in this study is that the research is not detectable. Researchers found that there was no relationship between a person's good character traits and updated status on Facebook.

If Dark Triad is a group of 3 bad characters, the Big Five gathers good qualities including openness, devotion, extrovert, consensus and mental stability. Surprisingly, the status on Facebook has nothing to do with the good points in this personality.

Researchers have yet to discover why, but they think that Facebook is serving society and forms the basis of an underground social competition.

"The competition for attention eventually caused people to reveal more of their bad points ," Sikstrom told Local.