What Introverts Say on Facebook (Big Five and Facebook Post Word Clouds)

[Seymour]

So there's an interesting article on facebook post content and the Big Five. The article opens with "The things you say on Facebook apparently reveal a lot about your personality, according to a large new study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that finds an association between words used in Facebook posts and personality traits."

The study built world clouds from the results for high and low end of each trait. Here's the image for introversion/extraversion:

I haven't looked at the study itself, but the word clouds are fun.

(Note to the easily offended: some of the other word clouds contain profanity, particularly those for low Agreeableness and low Conscientiousness.)

 

[Southern Kross]

Wow. Extroverts do love adjectives.

 

[á´…eparted]

Yup, definitely an extrovert by this.

 

[OrangeAppled]

This seems a little slanted toward ExFx and IxTx types...

 

[Seymour]

Wow. Extroverts do love adjectives.

I'm extremely introverted by that chart. I get teased about being a calm understater... plus I'm a reader and computer geek. Shocking, I know.

Here's the high openness vs low openness (very roughly N vs S in MBTI terms):

This seems a little slanted toward ExFx and IxTx types...

Well, it is Big Five rather than MBTI, so things are divided up a little differently. Still, I think it's on target that Extraverts tend to be far more expressive than Introverts. I think that Ts they tend to be more expressive negatively (even more so for those that are low Agreeableness in Big Five terms -- those don't always map up precisely to MBTI Ts). Still, optimism is correlated with Extraversion empirically, so the more positive adjectives aren't a shock, over all.

 

[Pionart]

Thinkers swear a lot, I guess.

Fuck.

(I think this is a false correlation, tbh, but just maybe )

Wow. Extroverts do love adjectives.

Well, extroversion is a focus on the object, so it makes sense that they would descibe nouns.

 

[Such Irony]

Wow. Extroverts do love adjectives.

And introverts sure love their computers, apparently.

 

[Bush]

Haha, "soooooo" and its 100 variations on the extrovert cloud

Very neat charts; thanks for the find. I love the agreeableness clouds. The neuroticism clouds are a very close second.

And introverts sure love their computers, apparently.

They also like their "of"

 

[gromit]

Sooo
Soooo
Soooooooooooooooo

 

[chickpea]

Sooo
Soooo
Soooooooooooooooo

get ready for the party tonight! its gonna be sooooooo rockin and amazing!

 

[Galena]

This introvert doesn't even like to post statuses.

 

[lunalum]

So there's an interesting article on facebook post content and the Big Five. The article opens with "The things you say on Facebook apparently reveal a lot about your personality, according to a large new study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that finds an association between words used in Facebook posts and personality traits."

The study built world clouds from the results for high and low end of each trait. Here's the image for introversion/extraversion:

I haven't looked at the study itself, but the word clouds are fun.

(Note to the easily offended: some of the other word clouds contain profanity, particularly those for low Agreeableness and low Conscientiousness.)

The extravert cloud looks like an 100% extraverted ESFP taken up to 11 with some extra glitter and glow sticks thrown in.

No wonder that Facebook status analyzer typed me as an introvert.

 

[Southern Kross]

The extravert cloud looks like an 100% extraverted ESFP taken up to 11 with some extra glitter and glow sticks thrown in.

LOL. I know.

I just noticed how negative/non-permissive/adverse/questioning the introvert words are too. To name a few in the central bubble:
- Don't/didn't/doesn't
- Least
- Actually
- Won't
- But
- Can't
- Isn't
- Though
- Dead/death
- Wasn't
- Shouldn't
- Dark
- Haven't
- Why
- Seems
- Apparently
- Evil

Also, what is up with all the contractions? So many of them.

 

[small.wonder]

Also, what is up with all the contractions? So many of them.

I'm thinking it's because we like to use punctuation.

I find these all really interesting but also hugely general, as they are clearly just ends of spectrums. I'd love to see one of just nouns, or adjectives. It would also be cool to do this by Enneagram type, or perhaps just instinctual stack-- that would be fascinating.

 

[OrangeAppled]

I'm extremely introverted by that chart. I get teased about being a calm understater... plus I'm a reader and computer geek. Shocking, I know.

Here's the high openness vs low openness (very roughly N vs S in MBTI terms):

Well, it is Big Five rather than MBTI, so things are divided up a little differently. Still, I think it's on target that Extraverts tend to be far more expressive than Introverts. I think that Ts they tend to be more expressive negatively (even more so for those that are low Agreeableness in Big Five terms -- those don't always map up precisely to MBTI Ts). Still, optimism is correlated with Extraversion empirically, so the more positive adjectives aren't a shock, over all.

I was referring to interests.... while I like books and computers, I also like music, art, fashion, psychology and spirituality (all of which I think is more stereotypically IxFx, among the introverts). I don't use those big, gushy adjectives with the frequency that extroverts do though, true.

The openness factor seems to define me more....I suppose combined with the introvert chart it would suit me.
Like many introverts, I post a lot less than most people on social networks though.

 

[wolfy]

Low predicted agreeableness is amusing. I don't tend to say a lot on facebook so I am not sure where I sit.

 

[Yaru]

Thjis is really cool!

I was curious to see what would my result be and I got this:

It looks more like a trilingual delirium more than anything related to personality type.

Could this be seen as an Introvert cloud?

 

[highlander]

What does my Facebook wordcloud say about me?

 

[gromit]

How did you do your own? [MENTION=23393]Yaru[/MENTION] [MENTION=8936]highlander[/MENTION]

 

[highlander]

How did you do your own? [MENTION=23393]Yaru[/MENTION] [MENTION=8936]highlander[/MENTION]

https://apps.facebook.com/my_wordcloud/