{"id":5186,"date":"2013-06-12T08:17:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T08:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2013-06-12T08:17:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T08:17:37","slug":"narcissists-love-facebook-and-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5186","title":{"rendered":"Narcissists love Facebook and Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"storybody\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook+screen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5192\" title=\"Facebook deserted by millions of users in biggest markets\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook+screen-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook+screen-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/facebook+screen.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter are a big draw for narcissists, but the ego-boosting tools are used in different self-aggrandizing ways by different generations, a University of Michigan study suggests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The study details how young adults of college age and their adult counterparts use social media in differing ways to bolster their egos and control perceptions of others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vain college-age students favour the mouthpiece of Twitter to amplify their opinions and views in cyberspace.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8216;Young people overvaluate the importance of their own opinions.&#8217;<\/strong><em>\u2014Elliot Panek, University of Michigan researcher<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Young people overvaluate the importance of their own opinions,&#8221; said study researcher Elliot Panek. &#8220;Through Twitter, they&#8217;re trying to broaden their social circles and broadcast their views about a wide range of topics and issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adults who exhibit narcissism tend to prefer Facebook, which serves as a mirror.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s about curating your own image, how you are seen, and also checking on how others respond to this image,&#8221; said Panek. &#8220;Middle-aged adults usually have already formed their social selves and they use social media to gain approval from those who are already in their social circles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/Radio\/The+Current\/ID\/2330503135\/\"><strong>Selfies: Narcissistic, empowering or just fun?<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers at the university examined whether the narcissistic behaviour was related to the amount of time each subject spent posting, reading posts and commenting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The study was broken down into two parts and the subjects were categorized into two groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first section tested 486 college students with an average age of 19 who answered questions about the extent of their social media usage. The students also took part in a personality assessment measuring exhibitionism, superiority, authority, and self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Among young adult college students, we found that those who scored higher in certain types of narcissism posted more often on Twitter,&#8221; said Panek.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/q\/blog\/2009\/02\/03\/is-our-culture-getting-more-narcissistic-1\/\"><strong>Is our culture getting more narcissistic?<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second part of the study focused on 93 adults with an average age of 35 who completed a similar online survey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Among middle-aged adults from the general population, narcissists posted more frequent status updates on Facebook,&#8221; said the report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The university&#8217;s study is among the first to compare usage of Facebook and Twitter sites to different age groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important to analyze how often social media users actually post updates on sites, along with how much time they spend reading the posts and comments of others,&#8221; said Panek. &#8211; CBC News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter are a big draw for narcissists, but the ego-boosting tools are used in different self-aggrandizing ways by different generations, a University of Michigan study suggests. 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