![]() ![]() Participants added a lab “Research Profile” as a Facebook friend allowing for the objective documentation of protocol compliance, participants’ status updates, and friends’ responses. For one week, participants in the experimental condition were asked to post more than they usually do, whereas participants in the control condition received no instructions. The current study tested the psychological effects of posting status updates on Facebook using an experimental design. Strong public opinions on its consequences exist but are backed up by little empirical evidence and almost no causally-conclusive, experimental research. Online social networking is a pervasive but empirically understudied phenomenon.
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