SURFdirect_Image-building op het internet_mrt2010_DEF.pdf (appli. No Lie! Your Facebook Profile Is the Real You | Wired Science | “On the Internet,” one dog tells another in a classic New Yorker cartoon, “nobody knows you’re a dog.” The internet is notorious for its digital dens of deception. But on Facebook, what you see tends to be what you get — at least in one study of tailless, two-legged young adults. College-age users of Facebook in the United States and a similar social networking site in Germany typically present accurate versions of their personalities in online profiles, says psychologist Mitja Back of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. People use online social networking sites to express who they really are rather than idealized versions of themselves, Back and his colleagues conclude in an upcoming Psychological Science.
“Online social networks are so popular and so likely to reveal people’s actual personalities because they allow for social interactions that feel real in many ways,” Back says. Back’s team administered personality inventories that evaluated 133 U.S. Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman. 2504 Steps to closing your Facebook account. | Steven Mansour. (edit: Thanks Julien, for introducing me to the awesome destructive power of Digg.) ;) Yes, it's true!
I finally managed to close my Facebook account. It was a long, arduous road - the hardest part was slaying the Gorgon on level 16 - and I'm glad it's finally over. If you, cherished reader, are wondering why I would do such a thing, then wipe those potato skins off the top of your Bananarama tour t-shirt and keep reading: I already left Flickr, Myspace, Youtube, and most of the other similar web services because they want to eat our babies. The process was fairly straightforward for each of those (Though Flickr ends it with a pretentious fuck-off: "Thanks for using Flickr. See ya! " Facebook, however, was a much more interesting endeavour. Changing or Removing InformationAccess and control over most personal information on Facebook is readily available through the profile editing tools.
Emphasis mine. Here's the complete transcript of the conversation I had with "Lucy From Facebook". Mapping Digital Identity.