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Tue, 6th January 2009
Stanford Students to Study Facebook Popularity
BJ Fogg wants to think the Facebook addiction, modify as throngs of discontent users vex to delete their accounts and the Facebook oppose grows louder.
Fogg, who is doctrine a "Psychology of Facebook" collection over at businessman University, says he hopes to "drill downbound on the Facebook science . . . meet rattling countenance at the manlike experience."
It’s a person nearby and love to Fogg’s heart: He already has most 70 enrollee writing on the person from a previous collection he taught terminal year.
"One of the students analyzed the crowning 100 Facebook applications and came up with sextet categories, traded on a two-by-three grid. The essay got acknowledged at a field scholarly conference," Fogg says.
Of course, Fogg has his possess theory as to ground the place is so compelling.
"It puts threesome things unitedly at once. One, it motivates people. It’s act to wager what your friends are doing. Two, it’s cushy to ingest — you hit the knowledge to ingest it. Three, it triggers activity rattling well. It’s the compounding of motivation, knowledge and triggers that makes it work. If it were absent some of those elements, it strength not."
(And here we intellection Facebook popularity is oxyacetylene by work boredom.)
Photo: Courtesy BJ Fogg
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