>>Facebook users ‘are insecure, narcissistic and have low self-esteem’<<
I have said so from the beginning — and Twitter users 10X!
Anyone and everyone I want or need to speak to I do in person or here at FR (most of you make the cut LOL) and a small handful of other sites.
I would think that narcissism and low self esteem were mutually exclusuive!
...I wonder how Bark Obama’s Facebook page is then.
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I really thought it had to do with keeping track of family and old friends... plus getting a kick out of how their babies are growing.
But now I know.. I’m an A-hole
I don’t know about the narcissism charge, but they do seem to have a lot of time on their hands.
Also I think a lot of it is called “log rolling”.
But yes, it’s very narcissistic.
But then everyone is “special” now. Please don’t hurt their “self-esteem”.
LOL, fits exactly the profile of folks I know that use facebook.
This observation is correct in mnay cases. Facebook etc. has facilitated and fed a pro-voyeuristic culture, one in which people put themselves out there for voyeurs and one in which voyeurs spend their time cruising into strangers’ private lives.
It’s creepy and gross.
I know one person who actually seems to exist to himself only on Facebook. He has so merged with the “life” he has created there, that is really all there is. It didn’t help that he started out with some serious mental and emotional disturbances anyway. But I don’t doubt too much Facebook can be detrimental even to those who are psychologically and emotionally intact.
Also, like the internet in general, but even more so, Facebook etc. “allows” people in their online identity mode to stalk and be meaner to others than they would ever do in person. And there is little defense for the poor person singled out to be harassed and defamed on Facebook. Not only that, no amount of physical distance can help a person get away from a person who uses Facebook to disrupt or sabotage lives.
The point is that Facebook can be valuable for conservatives...it is the 21st century and FB can be used to get information out to people who would otherwise only get their information from the dinosaur media. Just today I posted about the Koran burning controversy on FB- a conservative view of the situation that many people otherwise would not see...
So before you condemn something, or use a broad brush as one poster put it, think about how it could be used to our advantage.
I have found FB a very good way to connect with relatives scattered around the country and to locate/ reconnect with old friends and colleagues from my youth, college days and jobs from years back.
I guess that makes me insecure, narcissistic and someone with low self-esteem.
True. Ninety percent of postings seem to be new photos that shout LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!
Anyone who holds their cellphone 24-7 like an electronic pacifier is.
Doesn’t matter if they are chatting or texting or websurfing.
Plugging into the electronic teat to say “I’m HUNGRY” every 2 minutes is a sign of immaturity. “I’m waiting in a line right now...” “I’m still feeling last night...”
STFU.
I’m sharing this article on Facebook.
Hey a new facebook status