If You Post About Your Workout Routine On Facebook, You Might Be A Psychopaths According To Science

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If you've always suspected that your Facebook friends who post constant updates about their marathon training and yoga progress are total narcissists, you might be right

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A survey from researchers at Brunel University London spotted by Business Insider found that the topics Facebook users choose to post about are influenced by their personality traits.

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Researchers collected data from 555 Facebook-using participants who completed surveys about their personalities.

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I like to workout out. I exercise at least five times a week and have been ramping up my cardio. I like working out. I like thinking about getting in shape, making changes to my diet (sometimes, often I just eat too much chocolate), lifting weights, trying out new exercises, and finally getting my hamstrings strong enough to do the heavy squatting I know my fat ass is capable of.

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And despite loving exercise and fitness and all of the sweat and burn and mental exhaustion it takes when I wake up in the morning and convince myself to just sleep an extra forty minutes instead of getting the cardio I so desperately need in, I hate seeing people blab about their fitness routines on social media. And I like working out.

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At first I thought it was just because I'm a hater, but it turns out, science has got my back on this one.

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Because it's been found that people who gush about their workout routines on social media are psychopaths.

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The study found that what people post about on Facebook tends to correlate with personality traits and people who display narcissistic tendencies post more about their achievements on social media. That includes CrossFit stats and pictures documenting their impressive progress at the gym, apparently.

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Researchers from the Brunel University in London just published their findings in Science Daily saying that gym documentarians are narcissists.

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The researchers noted:

"Narcissists also wrote more status updates about their diet and exercise routine, suggesting that they use Facebook to broadcast the effort they put into their physical appearance."

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The study also says that the "likes" people get on these bragging posts don't necessarily mean that people actually like them either. Dr. Tara Marshal went on to say:

"although our results suggest that narcissists' bragging pays off because they receive more likes and comments to their status updates, it could be that their Facebook friends politely offer support while secretly disliking such egotistical displays."

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Narcissism wasn't the only trait the researchers reported on. They also found that people with low self-esteem were more likely to post updates about their significant others, which is no surprise to anyone with a Facebook feed.

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Those kinds of posts also tend to get more likes, feeding the vicious cycle of validation.

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On the other hand, people with low self-esteem are more likely to post about their boyfriends or girlfriends.

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So next time you see, or post, a CrossFit update, remember the personality traits behind it.