Understanding How Our Facebook Posts may be Perceived by Our Friends, Acquaintances

It is important that we develop greater awareness of how our social networking posts may be perceived by our friends, co-workers, and acquaintances.

While social networking sites such as Facebook have become an integral part of our lives, it is important that we develop greater awareness of how our social networking posts may be perceived by our friends, co-workers, and acquaintances.

People who post personal content on social networking sites and try to present themselves in a positive light may be perceived as bragging, and therefore be less attractive to others, suggested a new study published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

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‘People who post personal content on social networking sites such as Facebook and try to present themselves in a positive light may be perceived as bragging, and therefore be less attractive to others.’

The article entitled "Bragging on Facebook: The Interaction of Content Source and Focus in Online Impression Formation," describes the study in which participants viewed the Facebook content of four different females.

Study coauthors Graham Scott and Kirsty Ravenscroft, School of Culture, Media & Society, University of West of Scotland, Paisley, U.K. designed the posts to be authored either by the women themselves or by friends and to be either generally positive or personally positive.

Based on reading this Facebook content, the participants described their impressions of the four females, rating them on attractiveness, confidence, modesty, and popularity.

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"Humble bragging seems to be perceived as the least attractive form of bragging," says Editor-in-Chief Brenda K. Wiederhold, Interactive Media Institute, San Diego, California and Virtual Reality Medical Institute, Brussels, Belgium.

Source-Eurekalert

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