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."

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Re:Facebook Use Case

[Brian Feldman]

Many of us have more than a handful of friends, dozens of family members, and dozens more people that are not close friends from school but ARE people we still care about enough to derive happiness from sharing our lives with, even quite indirectly. Using a 'social' network of any sort -- be it Facebook, AIM, e-mail, IRC, MySpace, ICQ, GChat, Twitter -- is nothing more than an extension of direct communication, and implies that you actually care about being 'social.' If you don't care about being 'social,' instead maintain a personal website as a matter of pretense, and then declare every new communication paradigm that passes you by in life as a 'fad,' then you're in the sad minority of Luddite hermits.