>For my part, Yes, I've already acknowledge that people like you exist but it's not relevant to what I was discussing. But let's continue on that example you

>For my part, Yes, I've already acknowledge that people like you exist but it's not relevant to what I was discussing. But let's continue on that example you gave... >if I consistently like pictures of your kid it means I want to see them on my feed. Right... but when a person complains to her friends that "nobody 'likes' her posts", it then causes some of them to start "liking" the posts just to get her to shut up. This type of dynamic contributes to the phenomenon I'm talking about. >Facebook is inherently about sharing things about yourself: [...] Almost nothing posted on Facebook is not self centered in some way. That's not inherently narcissistic. You're reducing the topic to an absolutism which is not what I'm talking about even though I took great care in the first post to properly qualify the social phenomenon: over-sharing instead of just sharing and "too many personal highlights" instead of just "personal highlights". The NYT author did the same when he wrote, "_excessive_ posting of these pictures". Yes, Facebook is inherently about sharing... just as an old slide carousel is about sharing film photos. The respective technologies' purpose is not the point. To restate... There is a widespread social phenomenon: many of us share more than the audience wants to see. It has a perverse feedback mechanism (social grooming, white lies, polite self-censorship, self-ignorance, etc) that perpetuates the phenomenon across different media (e.g. film slides to Facebook). (This disconnect between posters' (non)curation vs audience receptiveness is also mentioned at the end of the NYT article when the author wrote, "I am trying to calibrate my photographic output. As we all should.") I think that's interesting observation to talk about. Maybe your issue is the word "narcissism"? I used that term because that seems to have the most currency.[1] If there's a better word, make a suggestion. If bringing up the topic itself is toxic and shouldn't be discussed, please explain why. [1] examples: https://www.google.com/search?q=digital+narcissism https://www.google.com/search?q=digital+narcissism