Personality, social, and aging correlates of social media membership, browsing, and profile updating

What is it about?

Guided by self-regulatory perspectives on personality, the study used a representative sample of U.S. adults to examine Big Five personality traits and social and aging factors as correlates of social media network membership and past-month browsing/searching and profile updating among members.

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Why is it important?

The results showed adults who were less extraverted and less neurotic and who reported greater physical limitations were less likely to be members. Moreover, extraverted adults without partners were more likely to be members than introverted adults without partners. Among members, the results showed extraverted and emotionally stable younger and older adults reported a similar frequency of profile updating.