Show me your friends...

Show me your friends and I will tell you what type of person you are...

The above link is the article I chose. Dr. Sonja Utz presents information that shows us the easiest way to judge a person is not to look at their personal social media profile, but to look into the information that they do not have control over, such as: their friends information, the amount of friends they have, and other influences that affect perceived "social attractiveness".

I definitely agree with this article. Why would you try and get to know a person based upon a profile which (usually) can be edited and monitored by the user? With respect to public relations, users of social media understand this and manipulate their social media profiles (as the article discusses) to portray a certain image. Looking away from the "extraversion" of the user and into the "extraversion" of the users friends, to which the user does not have direct control over, easily says more about the user.

I personally censor certain pictures, posts, and other information on my social media profiles to allow a certain image portrayed to others. I assume that if I apply for a job somewhere and my employer sees a majority of users in my friend list with pictures of them doing other inappropriate things, it's an easy crack into the true "Joe Calderone" (...not that my friends are inappropriate in anyway!).