term relationship has grasped a new meaning. Relationships are no longer face to face
conversations with a person you care about, they are digitally conducted and may involve no
communication at all. The new social world strays away from meaningful relationships but
introduces to more people than ever before. People using Facebook are able to connect with
thousands of people at the click of a button. Facebook is a way to digitally introduce yourself and
connect to many, it is a great way to network and has no self centered, narcissistic aspects to it.
In this article there are two sides arguing about whether or not Facebook is narcissistic or
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Mehdizadeh believes that the results point to narcissism being a huge part of the success of
Facebook. The research is said to have shown that people with higher narcissistic traits and lower
selfesteem use or are more likely to use Facebook. Over a person with no narcissistic traits and
high self esteem.
The NO side which is lead by Alex Lambert believes that the sole purpose of facebook
and the main reason of its use is to intensify relationships with others or get connected to people
that they didn’t know. Lambert does believe that Facebook has narcissistic traits and people who
use it with narcissistic intentions but he doesn’t think it is relevant to the purpose of Facebook
and how most people use it. Lambert came to a conclusion of research that he analyzing deciding
that the common use of narcissistic users is irrelevant to the possibility of all of Facebook having
a narcissistic purpose. He believes this because of the easy access to new relationships and the
ability to communicate with others, which is the actual purpose of Facebook.
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On Instagram and Twitter you have followers and have the option to not
follow back. People with narcissistic views have the opportunity to see other people follow them
and have them see what the narcissist is doing but the narcissist doesn’t have to follow that
person. Yes, narcissism is constantly a thing on IG and Twitter. People love to see how many
followers they can get but keep their amount of followers down so they have a good “ratio”. But
Facebook is completely different and blatantly promotes relationships rather than followers.
Facebook is a way to digitally introduce yourself and connect to many, it is a great way to
network and has no self centered, narcissistic aspects to it. Other social media sites have a much
more narcissistic aspect to it but Facebook is online to connect others and create friendships.
People use it everyday to connect to the world and intensify a relationship that may have a hard
time stay connected. Without Facebook we would know much less people and be much less
connected. Narcissism is involved in facebook but in no way is it the reason for its success and
the reason it exists, it exist to connect one world over a Social