The personality of popular facebook users

D. Quercia; J. Crowcroft; R. Lambiotte; D. Stillwell; M. Kosinski

doi:10.1145/2145204.2145346

The personality of popular facebook users

D. Quercia, J. Crowcroft, R. Lambiotte, D. Stillwell, M. Kosinski

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We study the relationship between Facebook popularity (number of contacts) and personality traits on a large number of subjects. We test to which extent two prevalent viewpoints hold. That is, popular users (those with many social contacts) are the ones whose personality traits either predict many offline (real world) friends or predict propensity to maintain superficial relationships. We find that the predictor for number of friends in the real world (Extraversion) is also a predictor for number of Facebook contacts. We then test whether people who have many social contacts on Facebook are the ones who are able to adapt themselves to new forms of communication, present themselves in likable ways, and have propensity to maintain superficial relationships. We show that there is no statistical evidence to support such a conjecture. © 2012 ACM.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
Pages	955-964
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2145204.2145346
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2012

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