Highly agreeable individuals are likely to use Facebook to fulfill a need to belong. Agreeableness is a better predictor of the motivations behind one's Facebook use as opposed to their behaviors on Facebook.

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Highly agreeable individuals are more likely to use Facebook to seek acceptance and maintain connections. Agreeable individuals are also likely to use Facebook as a way to supplement offline relationships and are more likely to engage in communication on Facebook.

Agreeableness and Facebook Use

Gwendolyn Seidman, Self-presentation and belonging on Facebook: How personality influences social media use and motivations, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 402-407, ISSN 0191-8869,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.009.

Self-presentation and belonging on Facebook: How personality influences social media use and motivations

High scores of agreeableness on the Big Five Personality Test are positively related to actual self-presentation. However, agreeable individuals' Facebook use is more motivated by belongingness than self-presentational needs.

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