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Narcissism, extraversion and adolescents' self-presentation on Facebook.

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This paper examined the relationship of narcissism and extraversion on adolescents' self-presentation in four Facebook profile features (profile picture, status updates, social network size, photo count), as reported by Grade 7-Grade 9 adolescents.
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This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 2011-01-01. It has received 419 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Popularity.

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Why do people use Facebook

TL;DR: A model suggesting that Facebook use is motivated by two primary needs: (1) The need to belong and (2) the need for self-presentation is proposed.
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The influence of personality on Facebook usage, wall postings, and regret

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used both a survey of Facebook users and actual Facebook data to uncover why some individuals are more involved in Facebook than others, using the Five Factor Model of personality to predict attitudes and behaviors.
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The Media and Technology Usage and Attitudes Scale: An empirical investigation

TL;DR: The new Media and Technology Usage and Attitudes Scale was suggested as a method of measuring media and technology involvement across a variety of types of research studies either as a single 60-item scale or any subset of the 15 subscales.
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Narcissism on Facebook: Self-promotional and anti-social behavior

TL;DR: This paper measured self-promoting Facebook behaviors (e.g., posting status updates and photos of oneself, updating profile information) and several anti-social behaviors (i.e., seeking social support more than one provides it, getting angry when people do not comment on one's status updates, retaliating against negative comments).
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Who does what on Facebook? Age, sex, and relationship status as predictors of Facebook use

TL;DR: Females, younger people, and those not currently in a committed relationship were the most active Facebook users, and there were many age-, sex-, and relationship-related main effects.
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Social Media & Mobile Internet Use among Teens and Young Adults. Millennials.

TL;DR: Pew Research Center report series that looks at the values, attitudes and experiences of America's next generation: the Millennials as mentioned in this paper found that since 2006, blogging has dropped among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults.
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Who interacts on the Web?: The intersection of users' personality and social media use

TL;DR: While extraverted men and women were both likely to be more frequent users of social media tools, only the men with greater degrees of emotional instability were more regular users, and being open to new experiences emerged as an important personality predictor ofsocial media use for the more mature segment of the sample.
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Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression

TL;DR: While younger teenagers relish the opportunities to recreate continuously a highly-decorated, stylistically-elaborate identity, older teenagers favour a plain aesthetic that foregrounds their links to others, thus expressing a notion of identity lived through authentic relationships.
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The Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire: Differential Correlates of Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Adolescent Boys.

TL;DR: This study reports the development of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ), and the differential correlates of these two forms of aggression, and demonstrates that this brief but reliable and valid self-report instrument can be used to assess proactive and reactive aggression in child and adolescent samples.
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