{"id":17499,"date":"2016-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/what-your-friends-facebook-posts-say-about-them\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T00:00:00","slug":"what-your-friends-facebook-posts-say-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/what-your-friends-facebook-posts-say-about-them\/","title":{"rendered":"What your friends\u2019 Facebook posts say about them"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Psychologists at a university in London have studied more than 500 Facebook users to find out what their status updates reveal about their personalities.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/05\/150521213743.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Brunel Uni study<\/a> tracked the recurring themes linked to various personality traits, including extroversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;People with low self-esteem post more frequently about their current romantic partner.<br><br \/>\n\t\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Narcissists more frequently update about their achievements.<br><br \/>\n\t\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Narcissists also write more updates about physical appearances &#8212; their diet and exercise routines.<br><br \/>\n\t\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;People high in openness post more often about current events, research, or political views &#8212; they tend to be creative, intellectual and curious.<br><br \/>\n\t\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Conscientiousness is associated with writing more updates about one&#8217;s children.<\/p>\n<p>Brunel\u2019s Dr Tara Marshall said while self-centred posts often reinforce a user\u2019s narcissism, there\u2019s a catch:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough our results suggest that narcissists&#8217; bragging pays off because they receive more likes and comments to their status updates, it could be that their Facebook friends politely offer support while secretly disliking such egotistical displays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreater awareness of how one&#8217;s status updates might be perceived by friends could help people to avoid topics that annoy more than they entertain,\u201d she said &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gym selfies, for example.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/afl-has-no-right-to-pick-lions-coach-we-re-not-in-russia\"><strong>MARK ROBINSON TAKES THE AFL TO TASK \u2013 \u201cWE\u2019RE NOT IN RUSSIA\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/sas-would-have-taken-out-lindt-gunman-says-kochie\"><strong>WE WOULD\u2019VE TAKEN OUT LINDT GUNMAN, SAYS SAS SOURCE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologists at a university in London have studied more than 500 Facebook users to find out what their status updates reveal about their personalities. The Brunel Uni study tracked the recurring themes linked to various personality traits, including extroversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The results: \u2022&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;People with low self-esteem post more frequently about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-17499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What your friends\u2019 Facebook posts say about them - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/what-your-friends-facebook-posts-say-about-them\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What your friends\u2019 Facebook posts say about them\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Psychologists at a university in London have studied more than 500 Facebook users to find out what their status updates reveal about their personalities. 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