Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Is Facebook a Hotbed of Narcissism?

I don't think that social media websites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram has made people narcissistic, it has just encouraged it a bit, but then again it depends on the person. As a teenager, I have to admit that when I put up a picture of something on Instagram and receive 100 likes, I am a happy teenager but not a narcissistic one. I find it a little sad how our culture has been consumed by narcissistic actions like reality shows but I think that it is the younger generation that has the problem. As Keith Hampton stated in his article, "Most evidence of narcissistic tendencies among today’s youth fails to recognize that narcissism declines with age. Generational differences in narcissism are small when compared to change due to experience. As Brent Roberts, Grant Edmonds and Emily Grijalva argued in their 2010 analysis of generational differences in narcissism, “every generation is Generation Me, as every generation of younger people are more narcissistic than their elders.”.   

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