This application analyzes and compares your traits with your Facebook friends

Researchers have developed a web application able to determine five dominant traits of your personality from what you post on Facebook. You're not immune to a surprise ...

With all that we share every day on social networks, no wonder some experts semantic analysis are capable of producing algorithms that trace the contours of your personality fairly reliably. Moreover they are certainly identical fuel programs that shape the data Facebook holds and exploits us.

It is the experience to which are supplied researchers at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) by analyzing the content posted by a sample of 75,000 volunteer members of Facebook to extract language elements that can constitute a corpus some common traits. The data were then thrown into a Web application by Five Labs, a California company specializing in artificial intelligence.

Thus, it was possible to isolate five characteristics, namely extraversion, neuroticism (or tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression and vulnerability), "agreeableness" (um, you understand me), openness and finally the ability to be conscientious, to derive a mapping of our dominant personality traits.

The experience does not specify whether this analysis, based primarily on language, is able to analyze anything other than American English, but I still did the test, and if not sure of the reliability results, I have not seen in any case of error or rejection. Better: I can compare myself to my Facebook friends who've taken the test (but does one asked their opinion for me and track the results in my own analysis page I do not know how this is shared ...?) or unknown completely anonymous and random as a Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Marissa Mayer or Mark Zuckerberg.


If I rely on these results to my own profile, it is not very bright, I'm a little uncomfortable and conscientious. However it seems that I have very open mind. That's something ...