Modern Day Narcissist

Social media tricks people to believe others are living a ravisher life than they really are. They post only the highlights of their lives, and never the negative. It makes others view them falsely and more presentable than they actually are, which makes those viewing their profiles feel less satisfied with themselves and their lives. There are even some people who drop all social media because of how terrible it makes them feel, but there are also others who thrive for the attention of social media and go through ridiculous tasks in order to take the perfect picture. There have been many disputes over how social media websites such as Instagram or Facebook affects ones self-esteem, it can knock them down.

In the modern world of today, social media has become apart of the average person's life. Scrolling through countless images of people with perfect lives. It creates jealousy and depression. This needs to stop. While some believe that social media is a fun way to express yourself, it actually portrays a false image of life because these profiles only show the good in life and often look perfect every day.

After watching the How Social Media Makes us Unsocial video, I do think that social media is making people unsocial because social media lets us communicate less with people around us and our self esteem could equal likes on a picture. In the video Allison Graham mentioned that we are now supposed to know about people lives because they post it on social media (Graham, 2014). This statement shows that we are so used to posting what we have done for the week on Facebook or Instagram, instead of telling people what we have done when we meet up with each other. Even when we do take the time to meet up with each other we are usually on social media liking what other people have posted  instead of communicating with the people around us. Now social

There are many contributing factors that create an anti-social society that we call the present. The main cause for this is that instead of making genuine conversation, we would rather use our phones. The more our phones advance the more we will notice awkward, if any conversation in the world. It is apparent that social media is creating a depressed, anti-social society.

According to the article entitled “ The Good and Bad of Social Media” by Jason Howie, “ They have looked particularly at its effects on human emotion and relationship. Some studies show that using social media can cause depression.” The usage of the media doesn't just slow you down but can slowly shut your real life down. Therefore social media ends up hitting you from left to right or any possible way it has. The mindset of always wanting to be on it can destroy your life routines, makes you put up with things you shouldn’t put up with. Sometimes, people end up getting bullying and killed for some unnecessary things they do on the media. Furthermore, Howie writes “ We expect more from technology and less from one another. More and more, we desire technologies that provide a false idea of a relationship.” We depend on the media to give us the answers instead of asking our surroundings and communicating with them. We always believe what media tells us and whether it's false or not, we use it believing it's better than our own knowledge. Our privacy isn’t privacy because media after media we end up in a random page which can get our information in just one

I believe that there are “right” and “wrong” ways to use social media. It can be a wonderful thing, and I’ve been known to use it every day. It’s a way to catch up with friends I haven’t seen in a while, a place to find information, etc. However,

Depending on its use, social media can either be a healthy or hurtful for society. One could argue about this for days, but there is one thing we can agree with about social media. It gets information out there. Sometimes that information is negative, but in this case, it's healthy. Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter have tons of users that use the site to promote their healthy lifestyle to the world.

Fact 1 is that people can feel like they are an important part of something with social media, while otherwise, they do not feel that way about themselves. From an article titled “The Upside of Selfies: Social Media Isn't All Bad for Kids”, they explain that,”In the survey of more than 1,000 13- to 17-year-olds about how they view their digital lives, 28% said social networking made them feel more outgoing versus 5% who said it made them feel less so; and 29% said it made them feel less shy versus the 3% who said it made them feel more introverted”(Wallace 2). That meant

The poster typically edits their pictures so they have the best lighting, do not look fat or unattractive, meanwhile their friends are having the times of their lives doing fun activities or trips. Remo even admits that she is insecure in pictures and often takes multiple pictures before she posts them, just to make sure that they do not appear “real”. The psychological effect on posting gives individuals a rush, a “Harvard study concluded that writing about ourselves on social media stimulates the same part of our brain we use when eat food, are given money … or have sex,” (Remo 5). Posting makes people feel like they are important, and important to those that like the picture. However, social media can be the cause of jealousy, especially when people your age are having more fun and experiences than you are. It makes the viewer wonder why they cannot have that lifestyle, or do the things their friends are doing. Remo recalls that a friend of hers became so upset with her life at graduate school, while Remo was going to bars, the beach, vacations in the summer. The girl cried because Remo’s life seemed better than hers, but Remo was the complete opposite. She posted those photos to make it seem like her life was better than it really was, emotionally, physically, and financially, but it was not what her life really was, “I don’t even remember that time in

Recent studies have shown that narcissism is a plague among the world and social media could be a reason why. Lisa Firestone is the author of, “Is social media to blame for the rise in narcissism?” She states, “We are living in an increasingly narcissistic society.” She goes on to say that technology is the reason to blame for that. There

You get a taste of it, and then you want it more and more.” (Murphy 3) Both Seida and Murphy see images as having both a negative and a positive association. To them images are a form of self expression. You are capturing a memory into a still photo, which is the positive form of it. You are creating memories that you SHOULD worship and love but the moment you go and post it on social media seeking approval from other people, that's when it becomes a negative form of an image. What I understood from both essay is that the moment you post an image on social media in search from approval or even if your not, you are putting yourself at risk to cyber bully or let downs because at the end of the day you are not the one who is deciding which type of people are commenting on your photo. Honestly to me, my personal opinion, I sometimes fall into the same category as the people who post pictures for approval. Whether it be on snapchat, instagram, or facebook, when I post pictures I am constantly looking at the number of likes it has gotten or the number of views it has received. For the most part I agree with these essays. I do agree that when you post pictures of social media, you might be setting yourself up for disappointment because not everyone might like the picture you are posting. But what I don’t agree with is what Murphy says about what taking selfies tell us about ourselves, I don't believe that taking selfies means that you have narcissistic, psychopathic and Machiavellian personality. Overall I understand where both of these authors are coming from and why they decided to write these two

Although there doesn't seem to be concrete evidence, our current society appears to be more narcissistic than the past generation. In the US, diagnoses of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) have risen sharply over the past 10 years. Social media could be one of the main contributing factors to the rise in NPD. Every day more than 80m photographs are uploaded to Instagram, more than 3.5bn ‘likes’ , and some 1.4bn people - 20% of the world’s population - publishing details of their lives on Facebook. Furthermore, the continuous selfies and status updates are modified, edited, checked and rechecked to present the best qualities of the individual ,and a lot of work is put

I agree with Sharlize that it would be ludicrous to be put the entire blame on social media for the rise in narcissism in our generation for the rise in narcissism in our generation. I believe nowadays people find it easier to blame everything on social media, instead of addressing the problems with capitalist patriarchy. Yes I do believe there ARE problems with the stigma of teenagers using social media to gain attention and self esteem but it is even more disgusting where we live in a society where capitalism is able to profit off our insecurities. Also, I believe social media is important, especially living in today's generation. Social media has helped create awareness and innovate the way people live. To address if we should blame parents,

Social media has the capacity to empower us, and in many ways already has. We’ve seen where people who mean you harm will duck away from not being recorded. However, social media a paradox as it makes you more antisocial, we are less connected, more narcissistic and increasingly disengaged.

Narcissism is often perceived as any other disorder, employing too much of something; committing excessive amount of time on the internet. However, narcissism disorder is not merely a problem of unmoderated usage, rather it’s the illusion of perceiving reality in false lens architected by vanity and superficial relationships over social media. In Dr. L.D Rosen publication titled Is Facebook creating iDisorders? The link between clinical symptoms of psychiatric disorders and technology use, attitudes and anxiety, Rosen stated “younger generations… born in the 1990s…show a strong urge to report their activities and believe that their social media audience cares about them, two symptoms central to the diagnostic criteria of narcissistic personality disorder” (Rosen 1244). Rosen statement offers a new insight to the effects of extreme social media behaviors on narcissism. Through her work as a social psychologist, Rosen has discovered surprising new information about social disorder. Instead of seeing technology itself as the problem, Rosen thinks, the problem is located "in the relationship between what takes place on screen and off in someone’s ability to shift frames or genres (Rosen 1243)." Rosen