Is Facebook bringing us closer together, or pushing us further apart?

• 24th January 2012
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

For most, the answer to this question is obvious. Facebook brings us together. It puts us in touch with those we...

The persona, the false self, and the social network: who are you on Facebook?

• 14th January 2012
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

In my last blog I used the psychological concepts of the ego and the self as a way to describe and...

Social Media, the ego, and the self

• 2nd January 2012
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

How does social media affect (or reflect) the basic ways in which we understand ourselves and others? One question seems to...

Psychology of Twitter II

• 7th May 2011
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

Social networking appears to be doing its job. This rather obscure blog remained obscure until I joined Twitter just a few...

Psychology of Twitter

• 10th April 2011
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

After much indecision and one failed attempt, I have finally got myself a Twitter account. My reasons for avoiding Twitter up...

Virtually Relating and the Psychology of Facebook

• 24th August 2010
• Aaron Balick
• ArchivePsychology of Social Media

It is becoming time for the psychological professions to seriously get their heads around the consequences of the rapidly changing nature...