Social Media & Narcissism
You're know, I think it's interesting. The last couple of years, I have never seen so much linkage between social media and narcissism. It's like social media narcissists are everywhere. And then I had to ask myself, why is narcissism just so prevalent in our society? Like, were these people all always narcissist, but we didn't know because we didn't have social media?
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:20
We all are capable of being narcissist, but that doesn't mean we all have a narcissistic personality disorder or a macavillian disorder. So I tend to avoid even using the word because it's a buzzword that people have familiarized for all the wrong reasons. But still, your question is very interesting. Social media in a lot of ways has been able to quantify wealth via what could be narcissistic traits
People with narcissistic personalities, you also have, I guess you could say, your healthy narcissist, your healthy narcissistic personality or healthy narcissism. So people with positive traits of healthy narcissism, they may carry traits of, like, positive self image, high self esteem, ample self confidence, acceptable level of self importance. So these are some of the traits that healthy narcissists and social media is a reflection of our society
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
So they're always looking for the next hit, the next light, the next attention. I knew somebody on social media who posted six or seven selfies of herself a day. Why? I know what you look like. Do I need to see you getting dressed in the morning? Do I need to need to know what you look like when you get in the car, when you get to work, when you're out at lunch, when you're going home?
Do we blame things like social media, or is that even enough? Can we go one concentric circle above social media and see that it's just a microcosm of this greater construct that we live in? And, yeah, we also see kind of like, I guess in the popular media, we see people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk and how these people are fragrantly, entitled, and unempathetic to normal people. And social media upholds this popularity
Annalyzed Perspectives
@AnnaT · 4:54
You. Good morning. Thank you for this interesting topic and I want to respond but I need to separate some of the things that you said just to categorize some of it. And so for the purpose of understanding the conversation, my professional career, I deal with social media, I manage social media and so I will be offering that lens and that perspective. And I'm also millennial, so a different generation. And then there's the piece about narcissism. So let me start with the latter first
Annalyzed Perspectives
@AnnaT · 2:41
So I agree with many of the points that you alluded to and talked about in the context of not taking a snapshot of someone's presence on social media and applying a clinical diagnosis. But I just want to offer insight into narcissistic people, truly narcissistic people. And narcissism have been around for a very long time. Whether we had the word itself to classify it very similarly to how people say, oh, well, homosexuality is a new thing
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:00
Has it caught on in terms of saturation on social media, where if you type it now, there's so many search results for Narcissism and everyone's an expert in telling you who they've dealt with in the past, who's Narcissistic and what to look out for when. These are not people who are trained in mental health. So that's all I was pointing out was that we have to be careful in how we label people narcissistic when everyone is capable of narcissism