Pouty photos, endless status updates on Facebook indicate ‘narcissism’
August 31st, 2010 - 12:58 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Aug 31 (ANI): If you are obsessed with your status updates and picture uploads on Facebook, you are probable an online narcissist, says a new research.
Researchers at Canada’s York University said that this obsessive updating on Facebook is related to egotism and low self-esteem.
“They probably show that narcissist trait offline as well, but online, they update a lot and always write about where they are or who they’re with,” News.com.au quoted Australian Facebook researcher Julian Cole as saying.
However, social networking commentator Laurel Papworth said this was not true.
“I would expect that to be true of a broadcast site like YouTube or MySpace, but Facebook is where you communicate with your inner circle of friends and it mimics your everyday behaviour,” Papworth said.
Instead, users were “trying to show that they feel loved by friends writing comments back,” she added. (ANI)
- Facebook generates feel good factor - Jun 27, 2012
- Facebook users narcissists, have low self-esteem - Sep 09, 2010
- Narcissistic students 'more likely to cheat' - Dec 01, 2010
- Narcissists too self-centred to make good leaders - Aug 11, 2011
- Facebook can boost self-esteem: Study - Mar 06, 2011
- British parents use websites to abuse teachers - Jan 12, 2011
- Colour-blind racial ideology associated with racism, both online and offline - Apr 22, 2010
- For young people, sex and paychecks come after self-esteem - Jan 07, 2011
- Frequent Facebook users more likely to lose friends - Oct 07, 2010
- Why people get 'unfriended' on Facebook - Oct 06, 2010
- Blogging relieves teens of social anxiety - Jan 05, 2012
- Teenage girls downplay intelligence and kindness online - Nov 27, 2010
- Help! My mother wants to be my online friend! - Feb 04, 2010
- Facebook introduces new 'groups' feature - Oct 07, 2010
- Tween texting subverts grammar, language skills - Jul 27, 2012
Tags: circle of friends, commentator, egotism, facebook, inner circle, julian cole, low self esteem, melbourne, myspace, narcissism, narcissist, news com au, papworth, picture uploads, research researchers, researcher, social networking, status updates, york university, youtube