How Does Facebook Affect Social Interaction?

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From the moment of birth, humans are social creatures. In ancient times human began to make networks within civilizations all over the planet. In those times due to lack of technology and many other reasons the ways to contact with each other were very slow and risky.By the passage of time, methods of interaction with others have become more and more enlightened. Technology has expanded and created more possibilities to stay connected with others. One of the revolutionary invention is the internet. It changed the ways and speed of connecting people all over the world.Our social connections are seemingly endless for any two individuals to interact through the internet due to modern needs. Popular social networking sites (SNS) have developed …show more content…

(2009) in a private university in the northeast US. The survey was around 400 level class contain a cross section of all majors. Students were asked to voluntarily participate in the survey. The items used for measuring personality factors were adopted from the FFM. Students self-reported the time that they spent on Facebook each day. In conclusion of this survey they found that individuals high on the trait of extraversion were more likely to belong to Facebook groups than introverted individuals. Those high on the trait of neuroticism reported that the Wall was their favorite Facebook component. Openness to experience was found to be related to higher levels of being sociable through Facebook. More generally, the authors find few significant findings in relation to the personality variables. On the other hand the survey was conducted by Amichai- Hamburger and Vinitsky (2010) found that students who were high on extroversion had a greater number of Facebook friends, extraversion was not associated with the use of Facebook groups. Both Ross et al. (2009) and Amichai-Hamburger and Vinitsky (2010) were not able to find a relationship between personality variables and the intensity of Facebook

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