Who uses Facebook? Narcissists with low self-esteem, a recent study out of York University reveals. "According to the researchers, Facebook provides an ideal setting for narcissists to monitor what they look like and how many ‘friends' they have. People who constantly check Facebook may be lacking in self-esteem, a study found. They also tend to use the site for promoting themselves to friends or people they would like to meet, the study concluded.... There was also a difference between men and women – men promoted themselves by written posts on their Facebook page whilst women carefully chose the pictures in the their profile."
This is not exactly shocking. This is the Internet. It was made for narcissists with low self-esteem. (And chronic masturbators.) Pretty much everyone who spends any significant amount of time on the web is deeply in love with themselves. Which reminds me: while I have you here, do me a favor and click the little Facebook "like" button down there in the "Share" row. I need all the attention I can get. Thanks!
It was made for narcissists with low self-esteem. (And chronic masturbators.)
Please edit. Redundant.
This is about me, isn't it.
No it isn't! It's about my baby pictures! My baby is the best thing that ever happened in my life and yours!
Surely not more important than a photo of what you're eating for dinner.
Um, Goons, I think you meant to spell that "your." Don't get above your raisin', showing how fancy and educated you are on FB!
I am so proud of my sandwich!
My sandwich is so delicious, but sometimes I worry about my sandwich.
*my cat is named sandwich. Click on one of the 50 photo albums! There are about 500 photos in each one! (that's all FB would let me upload :( -)
I'm going to screen-grab this dialogue and put it on fucking Tumblr, just because. Someone stop me -- preferably on some kind of other social medium, thereby granting me the trivial yet somehow vital attention that I so publicly require, all of the time.
#overshare
#CIRCLE THE JERKS
Mock all you want, fellas. I have seen your tumblrs.
gotta stack of GPOY's right here. Draw!
I cant. Im fat and a Body Snarker!!! theyll get me for sure!
random cat photo, then!
only dawgs up in here.
oh, and I see what you did there
So i guess that means virtually everybody in America is a narcissist with low self esteem?
Never mind, i just answered my own question.
Now I feel better about never doing anything with my Facebook page beyond weird status updates, sent via my phone.
Must go make fun of everyone who has over 2,000 tagged photos...
Best photo-hover-caption ever?
I thought Facebook was made to stalk past enemies in the hopes of feeling a sense of smug superiority based on the failures of others? Oh wait...that's pretty much what a narcissist with low self-esteem would do though.
Fuck.
Plus that never works out the way you want it to.
Groundbreaking research fo sho. As they say, if you can eat with a fork you can get into York. Yay for my alumnus!
And if you can eat with a new fork?
@jl: "Alumnus" -- illustrating your point concerning your alma mater?
Precisely.
I am on Facebook under my nom de Awl so I can bitch about my work. So I am pseudonymously narcissistic!
(Friend me!)
My nom de Awl is suspiciously similar to my actual name. Ditto.
I can't find you..or did you block me?
This is about me, isn't it?
I can't find you either. However, when I tried to search for you this came up: "did you mean coolish loolish"
Though, I did find a Brent Cox who likes to spank his children.
Where I come from, children were not spanked, they were "whupped".
You're the attorney at the 28th judicial circuit in Kentucky, aincha?
I've just spent too much time looking at the wide array of imposter Brent Coxes.
You ignored my friend request. I assumed it was because my real name is really boring.
Why is Facebook Choire staring at me like my liver would go well with fava beans etc.?
I don't have a Facebook page/Twitter...does that mean I not self-centered enough to make it in the new millennium?
As long as you have a tumblr you should be fine.
I hope the Awl's next spinoff after SplitSider will be a hilarious cat photo blog. Someone needs to take those fuckers at Cheezburger Network down a peg.
Yes. Please make good on this threat, Balk.
It just occurred to me while I was simultaneously Facebook-posting an unknown Tullycraft interview and masturbating that maybe this whole narcissism/low self-esteem dyad isn't as bad as it's cracked up to be. Who's definitively proven that low self-esteem is a bad thing? I'm not that convinced. It seems like one of those assumptions that deserves to be rechallenged. At least for me, low self-esteem is both the source of both my modesty and my lust for working on self-improvement. It's what gets me up on those cold winter mornings two hours early before class to review my notes.
The Daily Mail reports that the exact wording of the symptomology that correlates to heavy Facebook users is "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and an exaggerated sense of self-importance." Well, hell, those sound like the entertaining people who I enjoy being around. Anyone?
"I don't have a Facebook page" is the new "I don't own a TV".
It's also the new "I don't have a Green Card". People give me suspicions looks.
Fuck! I am both of those. Well, I own a TV, but it's not hooked up to anything. And I have a FB page that a girlfriend made for me back in college. So actually, I am NEITHER OF THOSE. Totally normal over here. HA.
I don't use Facebook because I'm better than everyone.
I use Facebook, but I got it when everyone else was still on MySpace.
I don't use Facebook because I would like to get another job someday. This is also a main reason for avoiding narcotics.
I think my heaviest narcotics use was during the period I was government-employed. Just sayin'
I use Friendster and am very lonely.
Ironic, really.
funny b/c i stopped using facebook precisely because i had low self-esteem.