A final topic (my
relationship with my current romantic partner) was not included in
the factor analysis because it was only completed by participants
currently involved in a relationship. Of the topics that did not load
onto one of the four factors, we only further analyzed the frequency
of updating about children and romantic partners as single
variables because of our hypotheses regarding the associations of
personality traits with updating about significant relationships.
We also asked participants who they shared each status update
topic with (no one, the public, friends only, close friends only), but
because there was little variation across topics in these privacy settings,
we did not examine this variable further.