Saturday, January 31, 2009

Face it : You love yourself


Take a look at my Facebook page, aren't I gorgeous, glamorous and successful ?

FACEBOOK,THE ONLINE networking phenomenon, has 100,000 million users with pages full of photos and updates on its user's latest endeavours.

But these pages can reveal more than first thought - it can expose narcissists.

Researchers at the University of Georgia asked untrained observes to look at the pages of 130 facebook users. Glamorous self-portraits, long listss of friends and self-promoting"wall" comments all indicated and unhealthy level of vanity. 

Study author Keith Campbell says,"Narcissists are using Facebook the same way they use their other relationships : for self-promotion, with an emphasis on the quantity over quality. "