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Narcissists Can Be Identified By Their Facebook Accounts - Psychologists
- river_styx 18y agoSo basically a socially affecting disorder will manifest itself on a social website? Shocking revelation!
- biohacker42 18y agoSo having lots of friends and flattering pictures of your self makes you a narcissist? And here I thought I was alone in thinking everyone who plasters their pictures on the internet is self obsessed.
- chaostheory 18y agothere's a hard number limit for how many good relationships you can realistically have with people. personally I think someone with say 500 'friends' either is a psuedo celeb or collects people like pokemon for their social network site
- unalone 18y agoYeah, exactly. And it makes it really hard to do anything useful on Facebook. I only have 54 friends on it and I get useful info, and really sparse updates. It's useful rather than addictive.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoWhat does it say about me that I don't have a Facebook account at all?
- raganwald 18y agoAccording to the post, narcissism is not just being 'self-obsessed,' but rather preferring breadth over depth in social relationships. Thus, they specifically pointed out that having a profile picture is not narcissistic, but using a glamour shot rather than a candid snapshot is narcissistic. My guess would be that the glamour shot--which represents you as you aren't--is there to foster attraction from people who don't know you well, while a candid snapshot reinforces your image with people you already know.
- Alex3917 18y agoI wonder if the observers would have been more accurate if they had used the Brunswikian lens model or some other tool instead of just eyeballing it. It looks like the observers were basing their judgments too heavily on self-directed identity claims.
- tristmegistus 18y agoThe article didn't say how I one can tell narcisists on facebook, but I guess the actual report does. Maybe I can write a facebook app that tells you if a user is a narcisist... What other personality disorders could we screen for?
- silentbicycle 18y agoYes, it does - it says that people who have dozens or hundreds of friends ("numerous yet shallow relationships") and whose primary profile pictures are glamor shots rather than candid shots (i.e., are intended to give an self-promoting representation rather than a personal one) probably lean towards narcissism.