Please read this article from Science Daily about the connection between Facebook and narcissim:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080922135231.htm
What do you think? Can your level of narcissim be determined by your Myspace page? 20 points EC for a well thought-out opinion of five sentences posted in the COMMENTS section below or emailed to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net.
Ms. Kings this is so bull. That is not even relatively close. Ur myspace and facebook pics or friendship has nothing to do with Narcissists, actually people do that to keep in touch with friends or co workers.. Mostly you add friends to make ur self popular or cuz the people with the most friends are invited to this myspace party or just cause u wanna meet new people. So things just have nothing to do science or philosophy.
ReplyDeleteI think that there is some level of this but not much. The reason why I say this is because people do have a ego on both facebook and myspace. I do not think that they intend on doing this but it still happens.
ReplyDeletethere might be a connection, but i don't think that it can be completely proven by your myspace or facebook pages. just because you have a glamorous picture of yourself as your default does not make you vain. its just that you think it looks nice and that the way you want present yourself at the moment. also some people do not truthfully 100% promote themselves on their pages. if someone is embellishing on their page you cant accurately say that they are narcissistic or not.
ReplyDeleteI believe there is definitely a connection between narcissism and myspacers/facebookers. As it is almost obvious to tell a narcissist in person, it is even more painfully obvious on these two sites. The article is head-on with its three points. People with hundreds of friends, and dozens of pictures qualify as narcissistic in my opinion. It's not the case for everyone but there are some people like that. Either you're extremely sociable, or you love yourself way too much.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with this.Narcissists are so easy to spot whether it be real life or on a site like myspace or facebook. What is the point in having millions of pictures and friends, no one is going to look at them all and the person is definitely not social with all those people.so extremely sociable is out of the question. That person must love their self way too much that they feel that everyone else should also. people like that in my opinion are most definitely narcissists or have a serious problem with the outside world.
ReplyDeletei believe this is only partially true. it mostly depends on the person that is being observed. because me myself can be determined by either of my myspaces or face book pages. some people put on acts and "fronts/shows" in front of certain people then act another way around family members. so its difficult to tell. those websites are mostly used for communication.
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