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posted by martyb on Monday November 12 2018, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the mirror-mirror-on-the-wall... dept.

Science Daily:

A new study has established that excessive use of social media, in particular the posting of images and selfies, is associated with a subsequent increase in narcissism.
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They also assessed the participants' usage of social media -- including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat -- during that same period.

Narcissism is a personality characteristic that can involve grandiose exhibitionism, beliefs relating to entitlement, and exploiting others.

Those who used social media excessively, through visual postings, displayed an average 25% increase in such narcissistic traits over the four months of the study.

This increase took many of these participants above the clinical cut-off for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, according to the measurement scale used.

TLDR: Social media encourages narcissism.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @11:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @11:58PM (#761509)

    Not all assholes are narcissists. But all narcissists are assholes.

    I am up to a count of 3 in my life of people that are full on narcissists. They literally can not see what they do. They are incapable of it. Only one of them is getting any sort of help.... by court order.