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Originally Posted by Plan9
Hah! That's rich. Where do you get that from?
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That's a good question. I don't think that Sam Gosling (the author of the study) would make the claim that
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people hate facebook, hate themselves, or at least, hate the fact that they're no longer really hiding behind a screen persona
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I don't know how one would get there from reading the study.
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Wanting to spend time doing "IRL" things and not VainSpacing it up...
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The study suggests that people on facebook behave similarly to the way they behave "IRL".
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This pop science totally leaves out privacy concerns and 236 Facebookers is hardly a useful sample composition and size.
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I don't think that privacy concerns matter in the context of the study. It seems to be making claims about people who use facebook, not those that don't because of privacy concerns. Regarding the composition of the sample, Gosling's sample is probably middle/upper-middle class white and hispanic college students. What does the population of facebook users look like?