If You Have a Lenglui FB Friend, You're Popular. Right?
How many people 'like' or reply to your post on Facebook? 2? 20 on average? 100? Research shows that your popularity on Facebook is related to how pretty or handsome your Facebook friends are.
By Esther Chung — 21 Feb 2013, 04:32 PM — Updated about 11 years ago
Have good-looking friends? You're popular
Having good looking, healthy, happy, and sexy friends can significantly boost your popularity on Facebook – this is especially true for women.
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The attractiveness of your friends’ photos on Facebook affects how your friends perceive you.
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Why attractive Facebook friends make you popular
The attractiveness of one’s associates on Facebook has a direct positive influence on one’s own social attractiveness,
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The team found that someone is considered more likeable and seen as a potential friend when they are associated with good-looking friends.
People are attracted by other people who look very healthy, happy and productive in a sexual sense. That is an accepted evolutionary law.
tmcnet.comThe experiment
A group of participants were then invited to rate the appeal of the Facebook profiles.
grahamjones.co.uk2 profile pages were created for each of them. One page had photographs of two attractive “friends” — a man and a woman — and the other had two unattractive ones.
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The University of Twente team created 4 mockup Facebook profiles using pictures of a man and a woman deemed "neutral" for attractiveness in a pre-test evaluation.
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