Comments on: experiment findings are just in; beautiful people have more friends on facebook http://www.mentalechoes.org/2009/09/experiment-findings-on-facebook/ Personal rant space of a guy no longer using an alias Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mona http://www.mentalechoes.org/2009/09/experiment-findings-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-507 mona Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:32:52 +0000 http://www.mentalechoes.org/?p=325#comment-507 well, it's true. confidence has nothing to do with physical beauty but when you're on-line all that is there of you is a picture!! well, it’s true. confidence has nothing to do with physical beauty but when you’re on-line all that is there of you is a picture!!

]]> By: Andy http://www.mentalechoes.org/2009/09/experiment-findings-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-491 Andy Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:32:35 +0000 http://www.mentalechoes.org/?p=325#comment-491 @ anna is that really right? somehow that doesn't seem so. i mean confidence is not really related to physical beauty and confidence is much more powerful as it's a prerequisite to charisma, which is what really gets people noticed. physical attractiveness tends to make people more receptive at first meetings, but after that it's personality that takes over, so if you don't have anything behind the facade you tend to come across badly after the initial judgement period has progressed into a personal analysis. but are people really more receptive to attractive people? i wouldn't think so. but this could be a cultural thing as well, as you're from the US so it might be a more predominate attitude there than other parts of the world. interesting idea though. why don't you write anymore? you used to be so regular with new posts, and now months go by. have you lost the passion for it? i see you're pretty active on twitter these days, so has that taken over from blogging? @ anna

is that really right? somehow that doesn’t seem so. i mean confidence is not really related to physical beauty and confidence is much more powerful as it’s a prerequisite to charisma, which is what really gets people noticed.

physical attractiveness tends to make people more receptive at first meetings, but after that it’s personality that takes over, so if you don’t have anything behind the facade you tend to come across badly after the initial judgement period has progressed into a personal analysis.

but are people really more receptive to attractive people? i wouldn’t think so. but this could be a cultural thing as well, as you’re from the US so it might be a more predominate attitude there than other parts of the world. interesting idea though.

why don’t you write anymore? you used to be so regular with new posts, and now months go by. have you lost the passion for it? i see you’re pretty active on twitter these days, so has that taken over from blogging?

]]> By: Andy http://www.mentalechoes.org/2009/09/experiment-findings-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-490 Andy Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:02:59 +0000 http://www.mentalechoes.org/?p=325#comment-490 @ unwesen jens, so you're telling me you were ahead of time but it was lost to the poor standard of education?! that's really... bad luck. :) fortunately my blog is only read by the extreme literazzi types of the web, so i'm sure someone is going to notice. won't they? @ unwesen

jens, so you’re telling me you were ahead of time but it was lost to the poor standard of education?! that’s really… bad luck. :)

fortunately my blog is only read by the extreme literazzi types of the web, so i’m sure someone is going to notice.

won’t they?

]]> By: Anna http://www.mentalechoes.org/2009/09/experiment-findings-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Anna Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:55:38 +0000 http://www.mentalechoes.org/?p=325#comment-489 Part of what you've missed in the analysis is the fact that beautiful people get more positive reinforcement from others, starting as babies. People smile at them more, people listen to them, they are more likely to be hired, etc. It might make the social world a less scarier place (compared to the "uglies" you talk about). So, why wouldn't they consequently have more friends (on facebook or otherwise)? Just a thought. Part of what you’ve missed in the analysis is the fact that beautiful people get more positive reinforcement from others, starting as babies. People smile at them more, people listen to them, they are more likely to be hired, etc. It might make the social world a less scarier place (compared to the “uglies” you talk about). So, why wouldn’t they consequently have more friends (on facebook or otherwise)? Just a thought.

]]> By: unwesen http://www.mentalechoes.org/2009/09/experiment-findings-on-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-487 unwesen Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:07:28 +0000 http://www.mentalechoes.org/?p=325#comment-487 You know what? I was typing in all lowercase for years back around 1999, and switched to proper spelling when I realized how sad it was that hardly anybody can spell any longer. You're behind the trend curve, man! You know what? I was typing in all lowercase for years back around 1999, and switched to proper spelling when I realized how sad it was that hardly anybody can spell any longer. You’re behind the trend curve, man!

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