Thursday, February 16, 2012

Assignment 6: Source 6 & 7


Source 6:
Muscanell, N. , & Guadagno, R. (2012). Make new friends or keep the old: Gender and personality differences in social networking use. Computers in Human Behavior, 28(1), 107-112.
             
            This article talks about a study done that compares the difference of how gender and personality influences people in regards to social networking sites. This study talks about the way that men and women differ in what they expect to come from social networking, and in return how they spend their time, and who they talk to while their on said site. This study was done on undergraduate students who had either a facebook or a myspace, or even both.
            I think yet again this is another great source in order to apply to my research paper. However it may be pulling my paper much to broadly, and expanding the topic to more then it’s already made up to be. However I do find the information in this study and article to be relative and something that most people would be very interested in in hearing. 



Source 7:

Psychologists’ attitudes and ethical concerns regarding the use of social networking web sites. (2010). Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 2010, Vol. 41(2), P.153-159, 41(2), 153-159.
            This article talks about surveying psychology graduate students, and the way in which they use social networking sites. The survey in which students participated has several areas to it such as surveying, and self-monitoring. This study allowed students to make their own assessment on their social networking usage, which may or may not have been a bias answer, or could have caused them to answer untruthfully.
            In regards to other articles I have found, I feel that this could easily fit into a category along with them, which would help to build a paper off of what all the articles have been saying about the research that has been done, that deals with usage, and personalities of those who use social networking sites, and who uses social networking sites for what purpose. 

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