What is Mark Zuckerberg’s Personality Type?
What is Mark Zuckerberg’s Personality Type?
Mark Zuckerberg’s name is mentioned just about everywhere these days due to the popularity of the latest movie about the creation of Facebook. In our book, The Young Adult’s Guide to Understanding Personalities, Toni Rothpletz and I give a lot of examples of celebrities with different personality types based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI.
INTJforum.com recently posted that Mark Zuckerberg’s type would be an INTJ. I’ve seen other chatrooms debate whether he was INTJ or INTP. I think most people would agree that he is an introvert that is intuitive and creative so the IN part seems a no brainer. The T part is also probable due to the fact that T personalities make their decisions based on facts and figures.
The only part that seems up for debate would be the J or P. The J personality is more structured and on time. The P personality is more spontaneous. In the movie, The Social Network, they portray Zuckerberg as more of a J personality. However, that movie is not necessarily based on 100% fact and had some creative license in how the story was told. This has been confirmed by Zuckerberg and the creators of the film. However, based on other things I have read about Zuckerberg, I would go tend to go think he is an INTJ personality, as he does appear to be more structured.
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Top 3 Reasons Why Facebook Friends Desert You
In an article from newscnet.com, a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado at Denver Business School decided to find out precisely why someone gets defriended on Facebook.
Christopher Sibona’s conclusions, having asked 1,500 people why they might reject someone in their social network . . .
No. 1 reason why someone is ousted as a Facebook friend is frequent, unimportant postings.
No. 2 reason, according to this study, is offering comment on polarizing topics such as politics or religion.
No. 3 reason for being defriended on Facebook is, according to the study, “inappropriate posts, such as crude or racist comments.”
Sibona’s study also revealed that 57 percent of respondents defriended someone for their online behavior, while only 26.9 percent used offline behavior as an excuse for their fickleness. His conclusion was this: “There is a lot more nuance in the offline friendship world. You don’t have to go up to someone and ask them to be your friend. That’s not the case online. It can be awkward.”
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Facebook Tweaks Allow Friends to Sort Those They Really ‘Like’
There is no denying that Facebook news grabs attention. With the recent movie release, Facebook has been mentioned in many news articles. Other than movie news, though, there have been some new changes that Facebook has incorporated. Do you have a lot of friends and find it difficult to keep track of it all? Facebook has made their site more user-friendly, allowing for sorting of friends. You can now find information you really care about on your Facebook site. Check out the recent article by Geoffrey Fowler from the Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Inc. unveiled three features Wednesday that it hopes will make using the social-networking site more friendly.
The new features are designed to give users more control over how they share personal information on the site with other people and third-party applications. In the past, some users and privacy advocates have complained that Facebook made it difficult to tailor communication for different types of people, such as co-workers or close friends, as people do in the real world.
The biggest change for users will be the new groups feature, which allows people to identify small circles of friends on the site, and share specific information and communicate with just those people. Users can decide whether the groups are public or private, and choose which information they want to share with each group.
At an event at Facebook’s Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said that giving people more control over how they communicate with different kinds of friends is the “big problem” that social networks face, and required a “social solution” rather than a technical one. “A lot of people talk about this as a privacy problem,” Mr. Zuckerberg said of the desire to share information with subsets of friends. “But more than that, it is an annoying problem.”
The other two new features Facebook unveiled address data control issues that had been raised by privacy advocates. One is a dashboard feature that allows users to keep track of information-sharing settings from third-party apps, such as plug-ins to other websites. The dashboard also displays exactly what personal information those apps are pulling from the social network. Previously, users could only adjust individual privacy settings for apps.
Chris Conley, of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, said the move was a step in the right direction, but the dashboard also needed to show what information users’ friends’ apps might be accessing about them, such as birthdays or interests. A Facebook spokeswoman said the friends’ apps issue was on the company’s radar.
The third new feature allows people to export the information they have entered into Facebook into one compressed zip file.