The Role of Social Media in Making Us More Narcissistic

First let’s talk about NARCISSISTIC. It means a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves, and an exceptional interest in or admiration for oneself, especially their physical appearance. And there is a history behind this word, a boy whose name was narcissus ,we was a self obsessed person and well known for his beauty, he fell love with his own reflection in the pool without realizing that it was merely an image.

According to the research people spend more than 6 hours on social sites like facebook, twitter, instagram which encourage self-promotion and as a result of this new found connection are ultimately changing our social networks at home and in public, even when you are with friend or relative ,people prefer mobile phone rather than to talk with others and become unrealistic in their own accomplishments and distort connections with people resulting circumstances in their lives, and most of people getting mentally selfobessed and people are always busy in talking selfies and putting caption like my life my rules, just simply shows that they just feel there is no one like them, more than 8 million people post their pictures on instagram just for the sake of attentions and where a person is judged and rewarded based on their looks and not their brain or actions and people use these sites just to get attention, even thou they might living in a dream and don’t even focusing on their goal and just want to live their social life, if you’ll go for a vacations and you’ve a beautiful view or atmosphere people choose taking pictures rather than enjoying and having fun they make videos and take picture and post it for the sake of likes and even likes on picture is more important than enjoyment and even there are many people who just go on vacations just for the pictures, some people who cant afford vacations and other expensive things the feel a sense of inferiority and losing their self confidence and start getting jealous of others infact most of the people show off their social life and embarrass other. People update their practical even update their every single moment on a platform like snapchat instagram facebook, people first checkinn their address and then visit ,even if they don’t upload any picture they get mentally disturb and just desperately want to post any picture and even on snapchat people post their every single activity even every single meals, and care too much what to wear ,eating and doing things which can make gossips about these things and get attention.

The ego-validating likes.

The comments.

The attention.

These things making person more narcissus, and our selfie addiction can push us to gain confidence in our physical appearance, although there’s a thin line between gaining confidence and becoming on the incompetent social media platforms to exhibit our worth, and if it goes too far, we may become narcissisti, , and selfie camera making our generation to believe that an Instagram following is all you need in life,likes, shares, and retweets is somehow biologically activating the dopamine centers in our brains to make us feel happier. It’s getting to the point that we’re building a society around technology rather than using to improve our daily lives. and how much time people spending and worrying about their digital self image. It’s probably too much. Be aware, and don’t be so narcissistic.

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