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Social networking profiles render an accurate portrayal of a person's real personality.

Researchers at the University of Texas interviewed 236 students who had profiles on Facebook, as well as a similar German site. Students were asked to describe themselves and then took a test that determines their personality type.

Third-party observers were then asked to make an assessment of the students' personalities based on their online profile. The observers' impressions were much closer to the students' "real" personality, according to the test they took, than it was to the self-idealized personality they told to the researchers during their interviews.

We're guessing that whereas Facebook captures one's true self, a MySpace profile reveals a person's self-idealized personality. Either that or anyone still on the fast-dying network really is a schizophrenia-addled exhibitionist suffering from delusions of grandeur.