Facebook Frolics, Transparency Dept. 0
By their status updates shall ye know them.
Science 2.0 reports that how persons behave on Facebook (and likely on other social media sites) betrays whether or not they are narcissists. A nugget:
Untrained observers were able to detect the narcissists also. Observers used three characteristics – quantity of social interaction, attractiveness of the individual and the degree of self promotion in the main photo – to form an impression of the individual’s personality. “People aren’t perfect in their assessments,” Buffardi said, “but our results show they’re somewhat accurate in their judgments.”
