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Interesting article on Facebook and narcissism

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BonesMS:

--- Quote from: Ales2 on March 21, 2012, 09:20:54 PM ---I have not read this article, so can't comment on it specifically.

But, I can relate!!!!  I can attest to the broader statement about Nism on FB, because I was briefly "friended" by a quasi-business partner, a published author with 5k friends and he is an extreme N - entitled, grandiose, self absorbed, constant attention and admiration seeker and yet remains emotionally unavailable to his wife and daughter (a 21 yr. old heroin addict - thats another story entirely). He encouraged groupies, posted pictures of his athletic/career accomplishments and my personal favorite - a semi-nude picture (i.e a towel over his you-know-what) from his college locker room days.  This guy incited a rivalry between two female groupies and the end result was that he had to shut down his FB.  HA!  His posts and the squabbles on there were more fun and interesting than SNL!!!

Anyway, I find FB amusing, but have been on the lookout for Nist behavior... I have not unfriended anyone yet, but expect I will in the future.

 

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As I was reading about over-aged college-frat boy attempting to gather "groupies", plus that locker room towel routine, I'm thinking "EEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!"

Bones

JustKathy:
I'm sure it's the ideal tool for Ns to gather N-supply - "look at me! I'm so cool!"... and I'm sure a lot of people unsubscribe to their posts pretty quickly in response, too and then unfriend them.

Yes! I see this daily with my N-friend and her 5,000 Facebook "friends." She loses 5-10 a day, then scrambles to replace them. She doesn't care who she adds, as long as that number stays at 5k. Facebook has a an unlimited supply of potential "friends," many of them spammers, bots, or fellow Ns. It's not at all hard for them to gather that N-supply.

Just a side note: a friend of mine who also has an N-mother tried an experiment with this. She created a fake ID, fake person, with a fake photo and fake profile, just to see how many people would friend someone they didn't know. Amazing as this sounds, over 200 people accepted her friend request on the first day. That's 200 people who friended someone who didn't exist, and she probably could have gone higher if she had really tried.

JustKathy:
Bones, I've seen many people (and a surprising number of them men) post provocative photos of themselves on Facebook. Ewwwwwww indeed.

Ales2:
Bones - eeewwww about revealing photos is right..

Kathy - This quasi business partner also added people he did not know (quite a few - anyone who said they read his book) as well as some completely fake profiles and paid the price for it.

BonesMS:

--- Quote from: JustKathy on March 22, 2012, 11:38:01 AM ---Bones, I've seen many people (and a surprising number of them men) post provocative photos of themselves on Facebook. Ewwwwwww indeed.

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I can never understand people who do that.

Bones

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