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From a recent study : 20% of smartphone behavior can be accounted for by WhatsApp usage, and females use it 13 minutes longer than males. Extroversion is of high importance in understanding WhatsApp usage, extroverts use it longer vs introverts. High neurotics tend to use Facebook more as it facilitates communication without face-to-face interaction. On the other hand, conscientiousness is inversely correlated with WhatsApp usage. Conscientious humans handle their digital consumption better and are less prone to Internet addiction. Are you conscientious? Conscientious humans can be described as punctual, and diligently follow their daily routines. Status updates. Image source: WeBlogCartoons, Creative Commons license. In related research, there was no good news for science uses of social media : I Like, I Cite? Do Facebook Likes Predict the Impact of Scientific Work? http://buff.ly/1LPj4Io - Not really. Impact of Social Media on Dissemination and Implementation of Clinical Practice Gu

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 4-8 weeks: Integration of Social Media in Emergency Medicine Residency Curriculum - Annals of Emergency Medicine http://buff.ly/1CcfgM9 Collaborative Economy Honeycomb http://bit.ly/1zoBreN - Not many companies in healthcare/wellness... Risks in Using Social Media to Spot Signs of Mental Distress - NYTimes http://nyti.ms/1xYFumq -- NIH committed $11 million to support studies into using Twitter and Facebook to better understand substance abuse. Classification algorithm predicts whether a person was vulnerable to depression, from their Twitter posts, 70% accurate. “We could compute the unhappiest places in the United States,” Dr. Horvitz said. Social media analysis might also eventually be used to identify patterns of post-traumatic stress disorder immediately after events like tsunamis or terrorist attacks. “You can see the prospect of watching a news story break and using thes