Study: Your Facebook Profile Speaks to Others about the person you are

While I browsed the net this morning, a news report struck me and I clicked the link to know more about it. It was reported that, "Our Facebook personality is what we are actually in the real life". This report made me think and to make a check my Facebook profile and on few others whom I know very well. Yes, the report and the study are right!

The report had the study report, titled “Manifestations of personality in Online Social Networks: self-reported Facebook-related behaviors and observable profile information”. The study was published in the academic journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. When I showed the report to one of my friends who is working with Sirius Star Marketing, he too agreed with me that it is true.  

The extract of the study: Despite the enormous popularity of Online Social Networking sites (OSNs; e.g., Facebook and Myspace), little research in psychology has been done on them. Two studies examining how personality is reflected in OSNs revealed several connections between the Big Five personality traits and self-reported Facebook-related behaviors and observable profile information. For example, extraversion predicted not only frequency of Facebook usage (Study 1), but also engagement in the site, with extraverts (vs. introverts) showing traces of higher levels of Facebook activity (Study 2). As in offline contexts, extraverts seek out virtual social engagement, which leaves behind a behavioral residue in the form of friends lists and picture postings. Results suggest that, rather than escaping from or compensating for their offline personality, OSN users appear to extend their offline personalities into the domains of OSNs. Your Facebook personality can tell a viewer much more about you than you would think. A new study shows that how you act on the social network is an accurate reflection of your offline behavior.

So to summarize, I must say that your Facebook personality can tell a viewer much more about you than you would think.