Social Media Narcissism

Register to read the introduction… Narcissists are great at being chameleons. They are known for being smart, confident, and articulate, and usually very charming when we first get to know them. Oftentimes they are obnoxious, and love themselves anyway…at least outwardly. More striking — and more surprising — they were aware that people who knew them well did not have quite the same high opinion of them. They acknowledged that those people would indeed see them as self-absorbed and disagreeable. But they also believed that their close friends continued to see them as funny, attractive, conscientious and intelligent, when in fact those friends — while they might once have had those impressions — no longer did.
Narcissistic behaviors are shown through obsessed behaviors internally. They are concerned with their image physically, and their reflection within the world around them.
The rise of narcissism amongst millennials or “The Generation Me” people who were born in the 1980’s and 1990’s who are now on social media vs. face-to face conversations has been studied by comparing …show more content…
The NPI in short “asks people to choose between pairs of statements, such as, “I find it easy to manipulate people,” and “I don’t like it when I find myself manipulating people.”(Dingfelder) Twenge also believes that “America’s been sliding into self-obsession for a very long time.” There is much debate about the reasoning behind this increase in social medias ability to transform people into more self-absorbed and narcissistic people, and she compares Social Media to the era when the telephone, and automobile separated people disconnecting them from their fellow