Which Facebook user are you? Selfie or a Relationship Builder?
Two billion users ranged from people who are real life relationship builders, town criers, selfies and window shoppers.
(Web Desk) - From using the social networking website to build on real-world relationships to aiming to get the most ‘likes’, a new study conducted by Mormon Brigham Young University in Utah found out that there are four types of Facebook users.
According to The Independent, the two billion monthly users on the social networking website ranged from: people who use the social network to build real life relationship builders, town criers, selfies and window shoppers. Researchers conducted this study based on the responses received to a questionnaire with 48 statements.
According to the lead researcher Tom Robinson’s findings; relationship builders “respond to others’ posts and use additional Facebook features primarily to attempt to fortify relationships that exist beyond their virtual world.”
Robinson adds that for these kind of users, Facebook is “an extension of real life” and they identified with the given suggestion on the questionnaire that Facebook helps to express love to family and vice versa.
The other category of Facebook users were Town criers. These people tend not to share their personal information and use other ways to keep in touch with their families but “want to inform everybody about what’s going on” in the news, or in local area,” Robinson says.
“Selfies” are the people on Facebook who are self-promoters, to gather “likes” and seek attention from other users on the social network. These people post their pictures, videos and text updates but they do not do so to build relationships. Researchers said that “Selfies” agreed to the idea that “the more ‘like’ notification alarms they receive, the more they feel approved by my peers.”
However, Kris Boyle the co-author of this study said the image “Selfies” present to the virtual world may not be accurate.
Clark Callahan says that Window Shoppers are the “social media equivalent of people-watching.” These people easily identify with the idea that they can freely look at the Facebook profile of someone they have a crush on and know their interests and relationship status.
Researchers gave 48 statements to the respondents. The questions were in order of how it reflected their use of Facebook. They responded to the question that fell the closest and accurate to how they describe them.
