A curious (light) article on The Psychologyof Twitter in 'Pychology Today', Interestingly, the last time I mentioned this app on here I, fairly randomly, argued against it on the basis of it not meeting Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs'; the author of this article offers a fairly compelling argument for how it DOES (and hence its pull). See what you think.

A Disclosure too Far

"An army has jailed a soldier and cancelled a military operation after he published its details on Facebook. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) had to call off an incursion into a West Bank village because the soldier revealed his combat unit, the location of the operation and when it was set to take place". Full story here

So you guys know a bit about formal models of cyberpsychology now...so what do you think might contribute to explainng this type of online behaviour? Lack of social presence? Social Context Cues attenuated leading to deindividuated, self-absorbed behaviour? Weak public self-awareness / heightened private self-awareness? Tell me...

A little fun :)

Last night we were talking about the necessity for social context cues in interaction...that we have to be armed with this observable information on those we're talking to (which we are in f2f) to be able to pitch our verbals appropriately...or we deindividuate and self-focus. Sometimes, the written linguistic style is enough to provide a very salient social context template even in the absolute absence of 'facts' about those we speak to....such as when we read something written in txtspk. It yells social context with a thunderous roar. See what you would 'look like' talking in the style of a 12 year old AOL chatter. IT DAFINIETLEY SAYS MRO3 THAN DA WORDS.SE!!1!!1!111!!11!11!!11!1 OMG WTF LOL C U SON AL

(Yeah...whut ^ said)