{"id":14652,"date":"2012-08-19T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T13:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=14652"},"modified":"2021-02-28T21:33:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T13:33:47","slug":"psychology-of-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/psychology-of-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"The Psychology of Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Facebook\u2019s Newsroom<\/a>, Facebook now has 901 million accounts (as of March 2012), with more than 500 million who are active on a daily basis. That\u2019s an impressive figure considering that Facebook was only founded in 2004.<\/p>\n

One can\u2019t help but wonder what is it that makes Facebook such a popular and successful social networking site. It has even gotten to a point where people could get addicted to Facebook, an unofficial condition known as Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If Facebook can be so alluring, there must be something about the activities within that users can derive satisfaction from. So what do people actually get out of Facebook? Perhaps by looking at the most common activities that users engage in on Facebook, we might be able to tell the psychological and social appeal of the social networking site:<\/p>\n

Updating of Status<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re a Facebook user like myself (and like the majority of internet users<\/a>), you\u2019ll know that there are all kinds of status updates<\/strong><\/a> out there on your newsfeed. It ranges from the type where the user tells you what he or she is doing at the moment, to random philosophical musings.<\/p>\n

Then there are users who try to be mysterious with their updates and get everyone guessing about what they meant, or those whose updates are simply complaints about their lives. Status updates can be just about anything under the sun!<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\tFacebook & Your Privacy: Why It Matters<\/span><\/a>\n
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