The Italians have boarded the train on Facebook and considerations of "psychological experts" are increasing: more or less well-known journalists have certainly received their invitation e-mail to subscribe to the network, and behold that, as good supplier of news, media enter their bulimic phase "Facebook". In short, the attention of readers grows and then, regardless of the context, every occasion is good to talk about it.
But when you talk to your reader, who is also joined Facebook, and tell him that it is certainly suffering from some personality disorder, is unlikely that you or she interviewed journalists, to be credible.
And if, among 1,860,000 Italian users of Facebook, there are elite of journalists, professionals, business executives, teachers, students, housewives and even add in all other occupational groups that want to ... we conclude that we are all sick?
The question arises as a result of the now famous statement to AdnKronos by psychologist Paola Vinciguerra about the "typical profile" Facebook user, one of the most popular social networks in the world. Basically it says that it is not by chance that Facebook has "infected in particular the range of 30 to 40 years": it is precisely at this stage of life, in fact, born of a sense of emptiness and loneliness that plagues the so-called winners. "
short, for Vincent and his psychiatrist friend Tonimo Cantelmi, on Facebook it would be especially lonely , miserable, no longer young, who aspire to promote themselves and to seek new conquests. A profile ... I would say sad and unflattering.
Come to order.
alleged that the typical user is a depressed ... Gentlemen, it takes a lot of courage! (Or a lot of misinformation ...). Do not think the Vinciguerra was based on research and analysis on the subject (now, in fact, do not exist) or that you speak from experience diretta (non essendo essa stessa iscritta a facebook). Forse parla per esperienza professionale. Ma (ringraziando iddio!) non credo che il milione e ottocentosessatamila utenti facebook siano suoi clienti... né che lo siano in una percentuale e varietà tali da potersi considerare un valido campione...
Una rapidissima analisi della letteratura del settore dimostra invece il contrario.
Sintetizzando i contenuti della ricerca riportata dallo psicologo Bussolon, si riscontra:
1.L’unico tratto di personalità che può rappresentarsi nell’utente Facebook è l’estroversione. Gli introversi vanno meno su Facebook, gli estroversi di più.
2. Gli studenti universitari usano FB soprattutto per maintain relationships that already have, rather than to find new relations (slight exception for students)
3. Students with low self-esteem and sense of personal satisfaction can improve their social capital through the use of social networks
3.The 'group membership social network of political commitment, social or cultural life goes hand in hand with effective activity the same type in your personal life.
is a fact that is just upset that his university, in terms of change, hope and new relationships, a person's life. It 'also possible that the use of social networks change according to stages of life. It 'more reasonable to assume that the people of the thirties and forties are people young enough to be groped the approach to these new instruments, and passionate.
The question rather is why many people use social networks where they exist, and are well established, have other tools such as forums, blogs, newsgroups. Certainly compared to other social networking tools provide a great opportunity to exclude people who do not like. I think this is the true function of Facebook as a novel of the other similar instruments: to allow to define who are our friends and refer only to them. Not everyone who is not cutting it wants to participate in our thoughts or our business network.
A site, a forum, can be seen by anyone. And sometimes this is not desirable.
Maurizio Boscarol defines a kind of social network mailing list in simplified management that focuses on the user. Anyone can decide their own contacts, only communicate with them instead of around the world. And being found and contacted by people concerned (which with traditional mailing list is less likely, given that increase the visibility of the operator, not the participants).
I do not think that Facebook will replace the public blogs, wikis, forums, and even mailing lists or newsgroups. E 'semplicemnete a type of instrument used to different things, intended to live with the arsenal of tools we already use would be.
And for this we will all feel more depressed.
But there is more. A search for Giglietti, University of Urbino, tells us that the various social networks are distributed in a differentiated way in the world: the most widespread in Italy is Badoo: communication strategy will be for cultural or variable ... the fact is that there is no way to understand why it was taken into account own Facebook to define the "persona" of the Italian network ... What
are only those of the sick Facebook?? Or rather lacking in these professional writers and psychology a true and adequate knowledge of a social reality in the process of transformation?
bet on the latter.
It is certain that these results do not support stereotypes, but rather suggest that Facebook is a tool to maintain and manage its capital, in particular its use by the more extroverted. Not by shy, in fact.
But in Italy, you know, clichés are always in fashion
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