Keep Technology from Taking Over Your Life

Priorities: mindfulness, meaning, and wisdom

1. Make deliberate choices about how much time you spend reacting to communication from people instead of pursuing your interests.


2. Box out time to put technology away; plan for specific times when you won’t engage with technology in any way.


3. Remember: the most precious thing you can give someone is your presence is your undivided attention without allowing your cell phone or other devices to interfere.


4. Be mindful of your reasons for connecting to technology. What is your purpose?


5. Get the most important things done and let go of the rest.


6. Build some downtime into your schedule.











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7 Tips to Keep Technology from Taking Over Your Life (from Wisdom 2.0) | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In

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New Research mentioned in preceding article below...

Cornell University Library

Computer Science - Computers and Society

 http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4809

Big-Five Personality Prediction Based on User Behaviors at Social Network Sites

Shuotian Bai, Tingshao Zhu, Li Cheng

(Submitted on 21 Apr 2012)

Many customer services are already available at Social Network Sites (SNSs), including user recommendation and media interaction, to name a few. There are strong desires to provide online users more dedicated and personalized services that fit into individual's need, usually strongly depending on the inner personalities of the user. However, little has been done to conduct proper psychological analysis, crucial for explaining the user's outer behaviors from their inner personality. In this paper, we propose an approach that intends to facilitate this line of research by directly predicting the so called Big-Five Personality from user's SNS behaviors. Comparing to the conventional inventory-based psychological analysis, we demonstrate via experimental studies that users' personalities can be predicted with reasonable precision based on their online behaviors. Except for proving some former behavior-personality correlation results, our experiments show that extraversion is positively related to one's status republishing proportion and neuroticism is positively related to the proportion of one's angry blogs (blogs making people angry).

Comments:	7 pages, predicting user's Big-five personality based on Social Network behaviors
Subjects:	Computers and Society (cs.CY)
Cite as:	arXiv:1204.4809v1 [cs.CY]

Submission history

From: Tingshao Zhu [view email]
[v1] Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:47:45 GMT (567kb)

Which authors of this paper are endorsers?

 

 

 

Personality Tests Superceded by Facebook???

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, based on the work of Jung is the system I intend to explore on this blog.

Forget Myers-Briggs: all you need is Facebook | Internet Psychologist | Graham Jones

Forget Personality Tests: all you need is Facebook

25th April 2012 
 

Personality tests are an everyday part of the recruitment world.

Massive consultancy firms exist crammed with psychologists to analyze the data and help companies ensure that they employ the best possible mix of personalities. 

It turns out that just checking someone’s Facebook stream of activity is a reliable indicator of their personality type, as assessed by a theory known as “the Big Five”. 

The Big Five personality indicators are: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, neuroticism and openness. 

There are other methods of assessing personality, such as the popular

 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, based on the work of Jung, but the “Big Five” indicators are nowadays generally accepted as the basis of personality.

New research has shown that a Facebook stream is a reliable method of indicating personality based on the Big Five theory. 

If someone’s Facebook timeline includes lots of “smilies” for instance, it shows that they have high levels of extroversion and people who post frequent status updates have high levels of openness.

Conscientiousness is reflected in lots of questions and neuroticism is shown by the rate of negative comments an individual posts.

The researchers discovered that simple checks of Facebook profiles are accurate indications of personality types as assessed by sophisticated questionnaires.

It all suggests that those personality tests use by human resources specialists may well be a thing of the past for many companies.

If you want to know what kind of person you are employing, all you need to do is check out their Facebook profile.

Many companies already do that when recruiting new staff, but largely as a “back-up” to the expensive psychological tests that they have used.

Now, there is evidence which suggests that checking Facebook alone is as good as those expensive occupational psychology profiles.

Categories: Internet Psychology
Tags: facebook, openness, personality, psychology, recruitment

 

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