Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive 116
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from the gaze-upon-my-socially-networked-glory dept.
from the gaze-upon-my-socially-networked-glory dept.
RichDiesal writes "In an upcoming issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, researchers conducted an experiment on the impact of the number of Facebook friends a person has on impression formation. When viewing modified Facebook profiles (all with the same profile picture and an experimentally controlled number of friends), people rated profiles with lots of Facebook friends as more physically attractive, more socially attractive, more approachable, and more extroverted. Since potential employers look at Facebook profiles these days, perhaps it's time to hire some Facebook friends."
So sad and pathetic (Score:5, Insightful)
It's so sad and pathetic that the metric being used by people is amount of Facebook "friends".
Re:no Facebook (Score:5, Insightful)
Quite the opposite, some months ago people looked at me oddly when I said I have no FB account, now they just nod sagely and mutter something about "prolly better...".
FB is the new cigarettes, I'd say. It used to be cool, but now everyone who started when it was cool wishes they hadn't.
Re:So sad and pathetic (Score:5, Insightful)
Welcome to the real world.
Re:So sad and pathetic (Score:5, Insightful)
Sad and pathetic is the proper way to explain anyone working in HR looking at Facebook profiles for hiring.