Social media posts may be viewed differently by others compared to how users perceive themselves
A simulated example of the multimedia and text versions of a Facebook status update in the study. Photos from pexels.com. Credit: Wang et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) In a new study, viewers of Facebook users’ posts came away with perceptions of the users that differed from the users’ own self-perceptions. Qi Wang