PsyBlog offers seven research-based tips on highly effective Facebook use. Here are just a few:
Get between 100 and 300 friendsFull story at PsyBlog.
It doesn’t look good to have too many Facebook friends, or too few.
It has been suggested that humans can maintain relationships with 150 people and Tong et al. (2008) found Facebooker’s social attractiveness peaked at around this number. Go much above 300 or below 100 and social attractiveness starts to drop.
Display your real self
Remarkably, you can often trust Facebook profiles; Back et al., (2010) found that Facebook profiles generally reflected their owner’s actual rather than idealised selves.
Facebook users may not personally know all their Facebook friends but they probably do like the movies, books and bands they claim to like.