Do Social Media Wall Posts Tell About Your Personality Type? : A Review
- February 10, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Business Management, IJRISS
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue I, January 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Do Social Media Wall Posts Tell About Your Personality Type? : A Review
RMMD Pemarathna
Department of Business Management, Faculty of Management Studies, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Abstract: The review is mainly intended to evaluate the what it says the social media wall posts about persons’ personality type. Hence, review underlined that different kind of personality types namely Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness to Experience and their activities in social media wall. It is identified that individuals with higher in extraversion and conscientiousness posts more personal information compare with others. Neuroticism divulge less about them because they think it will harm to their image. Further, to avoid conflicts persons with agreeableness personality type post less personal information and Mostly they are tagged in other people’s photos. Individuals who are with openness to experience traits are tend to involve more on social media activities but reveal less personal information. Accordingly, this study opens a new window for the social media researchers and it will help for social media users to avoid become a victim of others’ online bullying activities. Further, employer can hire well-suited person for the right position. Moreover, it will be an opportunity to marketers identify their customers using novel way.
I. INTRODUCTION
Do your posts on social media network illustrate about your personality type? Strangely the answer is “Yes”. In reality, what you like and what you post on the social media wall, say more than lot of things than you have think (1).
The personality can be identified in different ways and made up from the variety of theoretical perspectives (2). Leary, Knight and Johnson (1995) defined that personality as the meaningful, computable lens that represents several impression-related traits such as values, emotions, interests, beliefs etc. Moreover, Ryckman (2004) emphasized that personality is a collection of a persons’ characteristics that influence to his or her behavior in various situations and further it is described personality may help to online communication interactions. Nicole et. al (2007) indicated that the personality has been identified as one of the most adverted facts in online self-disclosure on the social networking sites.
