Talk about Yourself on Social Media?

New Study Published by Scientists at Freie Universität and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Reveals Brain Network for Sharing Self-related Information on Facebook. A network of brain regions involved in self-disclosure on Facebook has been determined, according to a new study published in the open-access journal  Scientific Reports . In the first study to examine the intrinsic functional connectivity of the brain in relation to social media use, Dr. Dar Meshi and colleagues from Freie Universität Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig observed connectivity between regions of the brain previously established to play a role in self-cognition, in 35 participants. Researchers focused on the medial prefrontal cortex and the precuneus, two cortical midline regions that are recruited when thinking about oneself. "Human beings like to share information about themselves. In today's world, one way we're able to share self-related information is by using social media platforms like Facebook," says Meshi, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany. Facebook is the world's largest social media channel with 1.5 billion monthly active users.