Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media This article was published in the PLOS ONE journal volume 9 on September 25, 2013. It was received for publication on January 23, 2013 and accepted for publication on July 29, 2013. The study was conducted by a group of scientists in the University of Warwick which is located in the United Kingdom. These scientists were H. Andrew Schwartz mail, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Margaret L. Kern, Lukasz Dziurzynski, Stephanie M. Ramones, Megha Agrawal, Achal Shah, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, Martin E. P. Seligman and Lyle H. Ungar. This study examined the language used in facebook as an indicator of individual differences. The focus of the study was on age, gender, personality and how they affect the use of language. Two approaches were used in the study: the first approach is closed vocabulary or word-category lexica which was used in many previous studies. The second approach is the open- vocabulary or differential language analysis (DLA). It is the technique generated by the scientists of this study. The complete dataset consists of approximately 19 million Facebook status updates written by 136,000 participants. The scientists used three steps to analyze the data: the first step is linguistic feature extraction (a- word or phrase, b- topic), the second step is correlational analysis which means the correlation of the linguistic feature with the gender, age and personality. The
Online networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are key ways that individuals speak with each other. Prior to this period of technology, society
Media researcher Johanna Blakley made an argument that “social media and the end of gender”. She believes that social media is going to help people dismantle some of the silly and demeaning stereotypes that we see in media and advertising about gender. Now many media companies use very rigid segmentation methods to label to understand their audiences. They believe that the people fall within a certain demographic category are predictable in certain ways. For example, married people will have certain tastes. It is great that the people’s taste is being respected in a way that it hasn’t been before. The people aggregate online is based on the things they love instead of age, gender or income. Also, sharing interests and values are a far more powerful aggregator of human beings than demographic categories. In addition, it turns out that women are driving the social media revolution. She showed some worldwide statistic to illustrate that women outnumber men in their use of social networking technologies in every single age category. It will make the media
Language is the most powerful tool when it comes to communication and establishing relations. The choice of words that a person decides would mostly likely determine the nature of relationship with the particular person being addressed. In most cases, people of the same age group or level have a common language they would ascribe to. With the advent of technology and the presence of many social networking sites, language is slowly changing to meet the demands and trends in the various social media platforms. Most words are now being shortened or other terminologies that are considered stylish or trendy being introduced. This is mostly common with the youths or the younger generation.
The posting of statuses in Facebook is not just for communication but rather to shape understanding for self and to create normative ways of transgressing or sometimes acting. Sauter also argues that writing is a way through which people can shape their lives realities and relations often in an unconscious way. Facebook is a modern communication platform that people use to shape their ethics, values understandings and beliefs. The use of technological tools is becoming more and more involved in people daily lives and conduct. The techno- social hybridity plays a major role in the modern societies by shaping self-formation and practices of people. Self-writing has become one of the major activity in human technologies, networks and other entities. Self-writing provides the practice that governs human conduct and re-shapes human behavior in the modern psychological
The rapid growth of technology in our society has become more dominant than it was in the 17th and 18th century. Today, technology is used for almost everything in our day to day lives. But the most common usage of technology is for communication and industrialization. However, every good thing has its disadvantage if it is over used, and since technology has become very dominant, it is used by both young and older people but more predominant among the youth of the today. Even more, technology has brought about social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, my space, piazza.com, instagram, tango, and last but not the least texting. According to socialnetworking.procon.org, “47% of American adults used social networking sites like
The purpose or hypothesis of this study addresses the anatomy of the Facebook network, communication behaviors and network composition, private messages and public communication, and the psychological implications of Facebook use.
The ethnicity had a significant effect on the students’ usage on social media. As you can see African Americans and Caucasians have a higher percentage of social media use than any other ethnicity. In the metropolitan area many high school are more diverse which accounts for a high percentage of diverse ethnicity engaging in social media. At UAB there is a marginal amount of students that represents Hispanic, Pacific Islander, and Biracial ethnicity. This insignificant representation illustrates the decline in undergraduates’ social media usage. Frequencies and Personality traits
Personality typing has been shown to have a variety of potential applications within the professional world, including the field of dietetics. The preferences a person has within their personality type can largely influence their decision making process. Often, the most dominant preferences will have the most input, which may hinder individuals from making the best decision for the problem at hand and can lead to unhealthful habits. This is how personality types may be beneficial when providing nutritional counseling. By recognizing that each person may approach a situation differently based on their personality type, dietitians can develop interventions that help clients achieve the most success. Personality types may also play a role in influencing
With the headway in innovation in a short matter of time it has affected the world from numerous points of view, for example, how the world discusses and our ways of life. One of the numerous progressive developments or advancements is called interpersonal interaction locales (SNS). Interpersonal interaction destinations, for example, Facebook, Twitter, and some more, are the place individuals accumulate in the web, make a customized profile about themselves, and collaborate with individuals around the globe. With the absence of parental supervision between the ages of fourteen to seventeen, which makes one of biggest demographics utilizing long range interpersonal communication destinations, these adolescents could be subjected to develop
Pew Research Center also claims that females are the one gender that uses social media the most, while men take a second place. What stood out in one of their research was despite females using social media often, men tend to stand by what they post and actually post more than females. This brought the question of gender taking an affect towards one’s identity and self-image despite the power and role social media plays out in society. Figure 5’s data indicated that the gender of the student could
The original International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) focused on Goldberg’s 100-adjective markers of the psycholexical FFM structure (Goldberg, 1990/1992). The current IPIP-50 is a 50-item prototype public domain (the NEO-PI-R is a commercial questionnaire) personality questionnaire (Goldberg et al., 2006; Goldberg, 2011). Since the questionnaire is free of charge over 600 different studies have employed it (Goldberg, 2016). Until 2005 the IPIP big-five factor markers lacked validating evidence, but research conducted in 2005 found that the IPIP-50 had a high internal consistency and related strongly to both Costa and McCrae’s NEO-FFI and Eysenck’s EPQ-R Short Form (Gow et al., 2005). In addition, Gow et al. (2005) found that although Intellect and Openness related less strong, it was still 0.59. A study carried out in New Zealand found that there was hardly any evidence to suggest hidden biases at the item or scale level of the IPIP-50 (Guenole & Chernyshenko, 2005). Before looking at the research examining the relation between the FFM and EI, this literature review first presents some of the current findings in EI.
At any given time of day, anyone can access an abundant amount of information at the click of a button. Men, women, kids, teenagers, adults and even the elderly are learning how to use the internet to their advantage. Among all the benefits the internet has provided to us, online communication has proven to be the most beneficial. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have made it easy for everyone to stay in contact with each other. Regardless of how far apart a family member or friend is, everyone is just one click away. If someone is not having a good day, they can share their feelings with everyone in a matter of seconds. These social networking sites have become quite popular among adolescents. They allow teens to stay more connected with their friends outside of school. Now teens have become more obsessed with their friends Facebook or Twitter status than engaging in outdoor activities like football or
Facebook, a social networking website, has changed the way people communicate with each other. A social networking website is an online platform that allows users to create a public profile and interact with other users on the website. Facebook has even changed our most personal and private conversations and how they are conducted around the world. Since the internet’s birth in 1983, this trend of online communication has been growing. Created in 2004, now registered with more than one billion participants, Facebook’s user numbers surpass even the top four social networking websites combined. According to Wikipedia statistics, Instagram has 300 million registered users, LinkedIn has 200 million users, Classmates.com has 50 million users, and Flickr has 32 million registered users. To be further convinced of the claim that Facebook indeed changes the way we communicate, you would only need to create your own Facebook account and start participating in their social networking experience. Technology and internet usage is fused into every aspect of our society including the style of communication. The launch of Facebook in 2006 also enabled other devices such as touch phones, interactive tablets, and even advanced cars with their own networking capabilities starting in 2007. Facebook is a multibillion-dollar company and is highly recognized for connecting more people than other networks. Facebook’s long-term success can be attributed to providing entertainment, world news, and
Giving the popularity of social networking sites lately, it has made an effect on the English
Social sites are a beneficial way to communicate, however, it affects a person’s ability to communicate face to face with others. Many people spend much of their leisure time online rather than connecting with the offline world. In a specific article, a participant spends several hours each day updating her profile instead of talking face to face with others (Livingstone 399). Being online more than offline, decreases people’s abilities to interact with others who are disconnected. Furthermore, by communicating online also contributes to misrepresentation, which leads to misreading a text, leading to mixed emotions of a person who wrote the message. Therefore, social networking reduces an emotional aspect between people as it is hard to tell what a person is feeling through text. In addition, people lack confidence talking to an individual physically rather than virtually. In an