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How You Use Facebook Can Reveal A Lot About Your Personality

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How You Use Facebook Can Reveal A Lot About Your Personality

It’s clear we simply can’t stop refreshing our Facebook feeds – be it to catch up on the news, see the latest memes or roll our eyes at friends’ photos.

July 26, 2017

A new study reveals your Facebook friends are divided into four different characters – which one are you?

With 1.28 billion users daily, it’s clear we simply can’t stop refreshing our feeds – be it to catch up on the news, see the latest memes or roll our eyes at the constant stream of photos of our friend’s toddler eating dinner! Sleeping! Walking! So cute and unique!

But why do we invest so much time (35 minutes a day, on average) into the social media site? Well, a research team from Bringham Young University set out to discover just that.

They came up with 48 statements that identified potential reasons for people to use Facebook. Participants were then asked to rank the statements according to how much they related to each one.

From this, they found that we can all be divided into four very distinct groups:

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How You Use Facebook Can Reveal A Lot About Your Personality
1. Relationship Builders
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If you’re the first to comment on your co-worker’s status or you count down the days until your best friend’s birthday so you can post a lengthy tribute on their wall, than this could be you.

Relationship builders use the platform as “an extension of their real life, with their family and real-life friends,” says lead author Tom Robinson.

“People in this group identified strongly with such statements as “Facebook helps me to express love to my family and lets my family express love to me.”

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2. Selfies
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The word alone serves as a pretty good explanation for this particular bunch. Unlike Relationship Builders who use their correspondence as a means to maintain connection with loved ones, Selfies are instead seeking attention through comments and likes.

Those who identified in this category strongly related to the statement: “The more ‘like’ notification alarms I receive, the more I feel approved by my peers”.

Study co-author Kris Boyle said that Selfies use the platform “to present an image of themselves, whether it’s accurate or not”.

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3. Town Criers
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As the name alone suggests, a Town Crier has a lot to say, and will utilise Facebook’s many features to make their voices heard.

This group “wants to inform everybody about what’s going on”, be it by sharing photos, statuses, videos or even personal information, though they’ll often opt to keep correspondence with friends and family off of the platform.

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4. Window Shoppers
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You barely post any photos, statuses or videos of your own, but you’re very happy to observe everyone else on their own Facebook endeavours, thank you very much.

If you’re a Window Shopper, you likely “want to see what other people are doing. It’s the social-media equivalent of people watching,” says co-author Clark Callahan.

This lot related most to the statement: “I can freely look at the Facebook profile of someone I have a crush on and know their interests and relationship status.”

So, which personality are you? Let us know in the comments!

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(Text by bauersyndication.com.au / Additional reporting by Natalya Molok)

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