Correlating personality traits to different aspects of facebook usage

Abstract

Nowadays Internet is widely used and social networking sites has become the important part of human’s life. The impact of such influence is needed to be studied as the physical world is becoming reality and real-world hell or less important. Social networking site is not only for communication but games, videos, status and many more. The use of social networking sites is diverse, and it can be from daily shopping to chitchatting, to education, learning and even business. This diversity attracts all stock holders making it more powerful, and at the same time, nonproper scheduling is causing the new term Internet addiction. There are many numbers of social networking sites with various different specialties they offer, and each has its own remarkable story, for example, YouTube for video sharing, Twitter for text messaging or tagging generally termed as tweets, Skype for video chatting and many more. The most popular of them is Facebook; according to 2018 July report, 2196 million users across the world. The main aim of this paper is to create awareness about the addiction and then provide the aspect of personality traits. In this paper, Facebook is considered to showcase the necessary features which should be properly surveyed like Poke, Tag, Like, fear of missing out, etc., so that its relationship can be derived to analyze the ‘big five’ personality trait is openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. We designed Facebook questionnaire of 36 questions, from which we considered four questions for analysis. On the basis of option frequencies of these questions, we can analyze daily Facebook usage time, Facebook use on holiday and in exam time.