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Narcissists, Insecure People Flock To Facebook
Meshach writes "A study out of Canada claims that Facebook is a magnet for narcissists and people with low self-esteem. The theory is that these people use the site as a means of self promotion or to feel important."
I mean, really, WOW!
Their may be a grammatical error, misspeling, or evn a typo in this post.
Or people that work from home and wouldn't otherwise see the light of day!
They needed a fucking study to see that ?
No doubt they do. And they are probably among millions of others who go there to keep connected with friends that they wouldn't otherwise be able to. Vain people look in mirrors a lot. Does that mean only people who are vain own mirrors? What a ridiculous study.
You mean these people who used to (I deactivated my facebook account long ago) annoy the arse out of me with their childrens every bowel movement and that their workout was great are narcissists? And just want attention? I sense a book on facebook addiction and overcoming it coming out soon.
I can't wait to hear what they have to say about Slashdot.
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I'm a narcissistic low self-esteemer then, but not at the New Jersey Guido level though, I do not glow orange yet...
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Most of my friends that are still active facebookers tend to use it for business means. One amusing direction for facebook would be a bunch of promoters saying "Hey, come to my club, you're cool just for coming!" and narcissists thinking, "Yeah, I should definitely go, it'll make me look cooler!" and in the end, facebook will be win-win-win, where the promoters, the narcissists, and the sane minority all get their way.
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This article was posted about a week ago by CNN, and then i'm sure some else already beat them as well.
One could just as easily say the same about people who publish "studies."
Bullshit study by a bullshit outfit ("Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking") on a bullshit subject.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
everyone?
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Extroverts get facebook accounts to vent their feelings...
Introverts get facebook to promote self-esteem...
Just conclude that social networking is favoured by social organisms
In soviet Russia, God creates you!
I just use it to play Farmville.
Mehdizadeh went on to say "that's why so many people get paranoid if their boss sees them on Facebook. They're worried that they don't project the same image there that they project in their workplace."
Yeah or you know the reason the rest of us get nervous is the fact that you're not doing work if you're on Facebook. Unless he means 'on Facebook' outside of work and then it's probably closer to the fact that you can't always control what goes on on Facebook unless you don't allow anything on your page. It's for socializing, not working so therein lies the paranoia regardless of whether or not you're a narcissist.
My work here is dung.
the real narcisists have their own vanity domains.
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What does it say about people who conduct studies about facebook?
According to TFA the study sample involved college students. What about other demographic groups? For most of the more "mature" folks I know that use Facebook it's a means of keeping in touch with distant friends, or to maintain a bit of social connection in a life dominated by work and family obligations.
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I found facebook as a great place to reconnect for the first time with girls that used to be pretty in high school, clinging to their pregnancy photos as though they were my own children, laughing with them.. printing them out and putting them on my fridge.. It's also a great place to have a decent, private conversation with your best friend's mom without him "getting all weird about this". A place for adults to communicate as they wish. A place for grownups.
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
"Heaviest users of Facebook are Narcissists, Insecure" is more appropriate title.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
It's a fact. And look at all the businesses trying to do the same. And they're failing, for one simple reason - the facebook format is not conducive to conversations.
Maybe Ellison can buy them and kill them off.
Though that overlaps with narcissism and low self esteem.
insert obvious statement
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I'm still trying to figure out the use case for Facebook for me, a geek, with his own web site. I already don't update my own site enough and I really just don't care what people from high school are doing. I've moved on in life and don't have a great need for a popularity contest. The people I want to maintain contact with I still do. What's the use case? I still feel like facebook is a fad, in the same vein of AOL of the 90's and myspace from whenever that was popular.
Seriously.
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
Isn't Mark Zuckerberg known to be a complete jerk and a narcissist?
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
... scientists have discovered that water is wet, air is usually breathable and the sun is hot. :P
Nobody ever wants to see my beautiful face. It's always the same, no matter how wonderfully sculptured by god-like body becomes, everyone just ignores me. If they take my red stapler, I'm going to burn this place down.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
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Facebook is open to anyone and provides people with the easy ability to send out pictures, rants, and messages to a large number of other people at one time. Narcissists can spout diatribes and lists of all of the things in their lives that they think are better than the average person's. Folks with low self-esteem can post about their problems and get almost-immediate support and reassurance. Did it really take a study to figure that out? Now, let me get back to posting a hundred more pictures of my trip to Hawaii. I don't know, though. I think I look fat in them. I don't look fat, do I?
Is this really news? Southpark already pointed out the obvious.
... everyone is on Facebook.
People who link this study on Facebook cannot contribute to its findings.
the narcissists who have to tell everyone that they don't use Facebook, don't have an iPhone, don't have a TV, whatever. They just want people to think they are cool too.
If all you've got to survey are college students, everybody is a college student!
I wonder how many of those college students were grandparents, which seem to be a huge subset of my Frenz on FaceBook! (Of course there's probably an even larger group of users who are grandchildren.)
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How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
Is it still arrogance if I actually am better than everyone else?
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that shows people who eat candy like sugar. Ain't breakthrough insights great?
It seemed more like Facebook was full of "party people" and salesmen. Even if you didn't fit that category, it seemed to have a way of pulling you down to that level. That's why I tried it for a few months and then said "no way". I had a small enough number of updates to make manual deletion practical, as they were taking actions against the "Web 2.0 suicide machine" at the time, and probably still are.
In remember when I only heard the word "narcissist" and "narcissism" in the college classroom and in self help books. But in the last 2 years I think its usage has been climbing dramatically. Anyone with Lexus-Nexus access care to check? I think it was a lyric in a few pop songs so maybe that's the cause.....
That's what I use slashdot for.
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd
Note, this study had a sample size of 100 college students, possibly self selected (selection criteria wasn't readily presented). It's really dubious to make a generalization on that.
There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies or vampires anyway.
Of course they flock to Facebook. Doesn't everybody?
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Or do they just post journals to slashdot?
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If you see people with 1000+ friends, they don't have 1000+ friends to converse & be friends with, that's just 1000+ people they can broadcast to.
If you see someone that adds you as a friend, but never comments on any of your wall posts, you're just another viewer to their wall posts. It may or may not have commercial promotions involved.
If you have someone that adds you as a friend, but doesn't talk to you if you saw them in person, well, that's a mystery to me. Maybe you were interesting to them at one point, but lost your shine & been replaced by other recent adds.
Facebook isn't a tool to meet new people, that's for sure.
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All of Canada is on Facebook. Which is actually true. They think Americans are arrogant, self-absorbed, and stupid. Yet they do nothing but use our technology and serve no purpose for any Country other than themselves.
I find it humorous that so many Slashdotters bag on Facebook users, who are apparently self-absorbed. Tell me you don't give a rat's ass how your Slashdot comments are moderated. Tell me you've never looked to see how many people are interested in reading your comments. I know there will always be those who profess to be completely disinterested in their social standing in Slashdot, but methinks the number who actually don't give a damn is smaller than the number who make that claim.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
This isn't just a "study out of Canada". It's a study of Canadian university students. So maybe it's being Canadian and not being on facebook that makes these subjects such mutants. I'll bet it's their national healthcare that does it. Freaky progressives is what they are.
The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to be plausible.
A guy i know at work says that everyone keeps telling him he has to get onto facebook, but that no one can give him a good reason.
The only good reason i got was that you can check out prospective employees, but all i got was "My chef made too many cookies, so i'm giving you 100."
I mean WTF???
As Jimmy says, "Like, come on!"
Facebook is for stupid... stupid is as stupid does. (read above with the cookies... like, come on people.)
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..and that's still not enough!!!
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You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
Is this is a sign that Hibe users will be unselfish and confident?
WTDF? MILF is that you?
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I think you mean Lexis-Nexis, but you'll definitely find more narcissists at the Lexus Nexus. All of them far too important to use a turn signal.
Perhaps this would explain all the fuss about cyber bullying. All of the reports I have heard are from Facebook. If people there are likely to have low self esteem...
QOTD - is there such a thing as a narcissist with low self-esteem?
That should be the target audience for FB ads!
"Do you see yourself as worthless? Do you want to share that with ALL your friends, as well as random strangers and potential stalkers? Well, do we have the place for you!"
{/sarcasm}
"I love animals! Some are cute, others are tasty, what's not to like?" - Betsy Schroeder, Jeopardy contestant
My kid was in the hospital _everyone_ wanted updates. This makes it very easy.
Take some pics/videos of my kids. I can post them. Other folks can check them out if they want to.
This way I don't have to e-mail spam.
I like to be able to follow the happenings of friends without e-mail/phone.
All that being said I rarely update and spend about 30 minutes a week on facebook.
In my mind that 30 minutes is well worth it.
"A recent study of Canadian university students suggests the heaviest users of Facebook are narcissists and people with low self-esteem. "
What about those of normal weight? Or under-weight facebook users? Is there not already a correlation between weight and self-esteem levels?
Sorry... gotta go... somewhere other there, there's a twinkie with my name on it
My FaceBook account was zombified quite a while ago - all its content deleted.
In your dreams! Once opened, Facebook accounts and content are notoriously difficult (if not impossible) to "remove" completely.
As someone once said "you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave".
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I LIKE this.
Now - get the hell off my lawn!
This just in! People who don't like things, want other people to not like those things too!
Wtf happenned to the suddenoutbreakofcommonsense tag?!?!? I know the tags got out of hand for a while but come on this post should get a pass.
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I blame facebook.
Slashdot itself the epicenter of geek narcissists who live for the +5 post but can't get laid
Holy crap there's a movie about facebook? Let's do a pointless survey about it!
Facebook is for those with low self-esteem.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
I wonder if the Despairware T-shirt was their motivation...
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Imagination drew in bold strokes, instantly serving hopes and fears, while knowledge advanced by slow increments...
And in other news...well traveled street corners are magnets for pan handlers. Details at 11!!
Now we know where to look for these people online. Who knew?
Of course, this doesn't mean that facebook doesn't have other users. I mean...does the fact that a pan handlers hangs out near the place that you walk by every day to pick up a cup of coffee mean that every one else you see walking by that spot is also a pan handler?
I suppose it might. :p (j/k)
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I use facebook to stalk narcissists and people with low self esteem. Does that make me the opposite of a narcissist?
I'd hate to hear what they think of people who post in Slashdot forums.
Don't know about Lexus-Nexus, but according to Google Trends, there's been a rising trend in "narcissist" since 2004, but "narcissism" has stayed more or less flat. Go figure. The first question that springs to mind is whether that means there is a growing interest in / recognition of the problem, or just a rise in its popularity as an insult (which could explain why there's no increase in searches for the phenomenon as compared to individuals accused of it).
Studies show that people who use facebook either really love themselves or don't!
Facebook = Personal Diary + Google
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What will slashdot do when they leave!
The study says that the heaviest users of Facebook are either narcissists or people with low self-esteem. That seems generally true of most forms of communication from telephones to casual conversation: the heaviest users are either looking to spread the glory that is themselves, or are looking for validation.
What the study doesn't say is that the majority of Facebook users are narcissists or people with low self esteem, but that is the conclusion most people here seem to be jumping to.
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