Identity management: multiple presentations of self in facebook
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
Personality and self reported mobile phone use
Computers in Human Behavior
Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people?: motives and use of facebook
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored relationships
Computers in Human Behavior
Who blogs? Personality predictors of blogging
Computers in Human Behavior
Motivations for social networking at work
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use
Computers in Human Behavior
An investigation of Big Five and narrow personality traits in relation to Internet usage
Computers in Human Behavior
Social network use and personality
Computers in Human Behavior
Imagined communities: awareness, information sharing, and privacy on the facebook
PET'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
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Over the last couple of years, online social networks such as Facebook have tremendously grown in popularity, especially among students. The technological advancements proceed faster than the understanding of the psychological factors behind this development. While motivations and gratifications related to Facebook usage have been investigated thoroughly, this study additionally focuses on the influence of underlying personality factors. However, instead of the commonly used Big Five, the characteristics narcissism, shyness and loneliness are investigated among undergraduate and graduate students. The results indicate that a high score on narcissism causes a higher Facebook usage and that the sub construct uniqueness/entitlement is the most important. The results also indicate a negative influence of loneliness on Facebook usage, while shyness seems irrelevant.