Facebook and Twitter creating vain self-obsessed people with child-like need for feedback

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 30th July 2011 | Sarah Harris

[max americana]

>vain self-obsessed people with child-like need for feedback,<

Like your standard FR thread starters?

[LibWhacker]

have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives

In other words, another generation of liberals.

We're doomed.

[pogo101]

LEAVE FACEBOOK ALONE!!!

/sarc

[digger48]

The self esteem movement has created a bunch of worthless youngsters that can’t function without someone telling them that 2 + 2 = 5. No one has the balls to tell them that they are wrong.

I just went through the drive-thru of a local ice cream joint.

I asked the young man for a pint of soft-serve. He asked if it'd be alright if he just filled a 32 ounce cup?

And no...I didn't correct him.

[driftdiver]

Thru facebook I just reconnected with some very old friends from high school and the military. Great friends that I just lost contact with.

Never would have found them without facebook or something very similar.

[Thrownatbirth]

"vain self-obsessed people with child-like need for feedback..."

That's me, but I only had ham radio at the time and stuck with it.

[driftdiver]

those youngesters always existed, they are just like their parents.

[Mount Athos]

You got me pegged! haha

[InvisibleChurch]

Self-obsessed generations started after WW II.

[Vince Ferrer]

We used to look out the office window and watch them walk into light poles, stop signs and into the streets.

That's what YouTube is for.

[ThomasThomas]

Kinda like a professor of pharmacology at Oxford University who needs to publish papers to been seen and committed on.

[A_perfect_lady]

Physically, I can be kind of a recluse. But I do like going on-line and bantering back and forth with my mom, my sister, a few co-workers, and a few friends from high school. We’re geographically so far apart, FB is really the only way. I get kind of sick of these little Pop Studies that constantly “warn” us of all the dangers of every new trend. I bet when flushing toilets became widespread, some twit somewhere popped up immediately to “warn” us that this new invention creates a breed of people who think all problems can be flushed away just by pulling a chain, and were therefore psychologically stunted.

[Drango]

I’m eating a cheese sandwich.

[ThomasThomas]

What kind of bread?

[endthematrix]

Social media is a wonderful tool. But like crack, can highlight a subculture to their perpetual constant self absorption - and the phenom is scary.

[Talisker]

I didn’t know the desire for feedback was “childish.” I thought it was “human.”

No, refusing to acknowledge the obvious point of obsessive narcissism is "childish."

Merely claiming to be "human" is simply a way to demonize a critic for catching you being "childish."

[mlocher]

I asked the young man for a pint of soft-serve. He asked if it'd be alright if he just filled a 32 ounce cup?

And no...I didn't correct him.

Where did you go? In today's economy I love two for one deals!

[A_perfect_lady]

Sounds like self-righteousness to me. And a university hack who needs to publish.

[Rebelbase]

The man without a facebook:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a69RpEBJFAY

[mlocher]

I bet when flushing toilets became widespread, some twit somewhere popped up immediately to “warn” us that this new invention creates a breed of people who think all problems can be flushed away just by pulling a chain, and were therefore psychologically stunted.

LOL! You mean we have to wait until 2012 to get a new president?