http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33796525/ns/technology_and_science-science
I think this article is very interesting since it is about a social profiling site and how you can persuade other people based on attractiveness. We actually talked about this in class where it can be based on their audience, likability, and physical attractiveness.
"In an age dominated by social media where personal photographs are ubiquitous, it becomes important to understand the ways personality is communicated via our appearance," said study researcher Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University. "The appearance one portrays in his or her photographs has important implications for their professional and social life."
I believe that with facebook and other social networking sites we focus more on the Peripheral Route Processing instead of Central Route Processing. Instead of analyzing the message being conveyed we are more likely to see someone be more likable if they are more attractive
Another thing I find fascinating is that it tested many different things such as: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness (open to experience), likability, self-esteem, loneliness, religiosity and political orientation.
If there is one thing you can take away from this it comes back to the basic argument of representative heuristics. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck. If you want to be seen as a friendly person you need to show that in your pictures on facebook and real life as well.
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Excellent interpretation! I think a really interesting thing about these social networking sites is what photographs people choose to post as a representation of themselves. I really do think that you can tell a lot about a person and what they value about themselves just by the picture they select for everybody to see. Very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree that this is true. People have these profiles to show the side of them that they want to be seen. But facebook and other social networks don't tell the whole story, only the "good" part. Facebook also lets people into each others lives and know things about them that maybe they shouldn't. If you are "friends" with someone on facebook, but don't really know them at all, then you can find out whatever you want about them. I think that society has moved away from people having privacy, and put more emphasis on people knowing everything they can about one another. It leads to a lot of gossip and people thinking they know a person, when they really don't.
ReplyDeleteIn my sociology class we just looked at pictures on facebook and picked them apart to show how each individual acts like everyone else. It is interesting that you chose this article because it seems to me that in 90% of the pictures on facebook, the individual is trying to look as attractive as possible. You don't often see pictures of anyone in there pj's or when they just woke up, but dressed in revealing clothes and all dolled up. I believe the reason for this is all the celeberties and role moldels now days are protraying themselves in the same way. Everyday you see pictures of celeberties showing more and more skin, I think the population then thinks it is ok to act as they do.
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