Five Labs analyzes your Facebook posts to supposedly reveal your personality

A lot of people addicted to social media judge people on the basis of the posts and photos they upload, or the comments they like. There are certain posts and comments that are taken far too seriously, but what if these were indicators of how the person is in real life?

A company called Five Labs has created a tool that claims to reveal an individual’s personality via their social media uploads. This tool analyses the News Feed of your Facebook account and gives a thorough analysis of your personality. The tool is based on a study conducted in the University of Pennsylvania that looks at the five biggest personality traits that can be used to narrow down the actual personality of the person. These are include extroversion, openness, neuroticism, conscientiousness and agreeableness.

As the tool is free, anyone can give it a try. We think the results should not be taken at face value since many of our posts and shares may have nothing to do with us or our opinions. They could be favours for friends, for example, but there’s no way the tool would know that, if your interaction with that person is not limited to just that one post.

On conducting the analysis of the app I found it quite hard to believe that I scored the highest in neuroticism with 53 percent. I scored 49 percent for openness, 13 percent for extroversion, 34 percent for agreeableness and 24 percent for conscientiousness. While I don’t quite agree with the neuroticism score, every other score seems fair.

The tool also allowed me to compare my scores with famous public figures and my Facebook friends. On comparision with Bill Gates scores I found out that 51 percent of our personality traits are similar through our Facebook posts. Unfortunately, that’s the only things in common between us.

There’s just one hitch that we just haven’t been able to understand, the tool lets you compare your score to Mahatma Gandhi as well. We are pretty sure the great man is not a part of Facebook. We’ve reached out to Five Labs for a clarification.