Argument Map: Correlation between personality, mood, and social media engagement by Ike Oleka

Argument: People's personality correlates with the type of content they engage in on social media

ipo5 — 2024-04-07 23:06:22 UTC

Question: Is social media detrimental to society?

ipo5 — 2024-04-08 01:43:22 UTC

What's the source of proof?

ipo5 — 2024-04-08 03:38:58 UTC

Upon using an electroencephalogram (EEG) and conducting personality surveys, experimenters were able to discover that people who are extroverted are more likely to share content. Moreover, people who have depressive personalities are more likely to spread informative content like the news.

Use of electroencephalogram (EEG)

ipo5 — 2024-04-08 14:48:07 UTC

This method provided an analysis of how people view disaster alerts, observed how much people paid attention to content, and the response of people to the question of whether they should share alerts with their peers through social media.

There needs to be a better understanding of the connection between a user's personality and content preference.

ipo5 — 2024-04-08 17:05:59 UTC

Since social media users associate themselves with people who're similar to them, most people will share a similar correlation in terms of personality content preference with their friends.

Extroversion vs depression

ipo5 — 2024-04-08 18:06:31 UTC

The most extroverted social media users were more likely to retweet any message that had to do with socialization. Whereas people who were angry and depressed, showed the most empathy towards informative messages.

Link between social media posting behavior and personality over the years (2011 and 2012 experiments)

ipo5 — 2024-04-08 19:16:31 UTC

Big Five personality test scores and social graphs have been used to correlate the type of content people post on social media with their personality traits.

Specific personality traits

ipo5 — 2024-04-08 20:22:01 UTC

Anti-social traits in users like narcissism and psychopathy were also predicted with the Big Five personality traits test.

Combining EEG, emotion, and social media

ipo5 — 2024-04-08 22:28:16 UTC

This focused on producing tweets that reflected a person's emotions depending on the location they were at.

What the experimenters' work demonstrates

ipo5 — 2024-04-08 22:45:07 UTC

"Our present work demonstrates that personality and mood significantly affect the type of content users choose to share under controlled conditions. This shows there is need for models to better characterize a user's mood and personality to understand them in live social media feeds," (Hodas 503).

Yes, absolutely!

ipo5 — 2024-04-08 22:57:36 UTC

My input: Amount of time spent on social media

ipo5 — 2024-04-08 23:26:35 UTC

We spend so much time on social media to the point where it's almost inevitable for us to be influenced by it.

My input: vice versa

ipo5 — 2024-04-09 01:36:06 UTC

Although it's been proven with evidence that personality and mood affect the type of content users consume and share, I would argue that it's also the other way around. The type of content people consume on the internet can also shape their personality and the way they interact with others through a user modeling their behavior to almost reflect the behaviors of other people they see on social media.

My input: Introverts

ipo5 — 2024-04-09 02:22:57 UTC

What about introverts? How would people who more on hte introverted side of the spectrum interact with people via social media? What type of content are they more prone to sharing than others?

My input: A source for further research

ipo5 — 2024-04-09 03:10:25 UTC

The 16 sociotype personality test is a great addition for research on how someone's personality influences the type of content they'll engage in on social media. After taking the test, based on their results, the research participants will be given 4 letter acronyms indicating what their personality type is. For example, someone who is an ISTJ is usually described to be a quiet and well organized, so they're like a straight arrow in which they rarely procrastinate and get what needs to be done on time. Whereas on the flip side, you have someone who is an ESFP and they're outgoing, cheerful, and love to be in the spotlight. People who have an E at the start of their sociotype are usually extroverted, but people have an I in their sociotype are usually introverted. Researchers can use these test results to predict and then experiment on what type of content people with the same or similar sociotype will engage in on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and etc.