Comments on: Is your life as awesome as you pretend it is on Facebook? https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/ Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed Fri, 26 Aug 2016 00:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Carolyn Thomas https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-40905 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:51:11 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8885#comment-40905 I’m not implying anything – merely sharing Dr. Twenge’s survey findings, which included not only self-promotion (agreed – a must for successful entrepreneurs), but also “being narcissistic, overconfident, and attention-seeking”.

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]]> By: Claudia Rar https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-40900 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:21:09 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8885#comment-40900 ‘40% of respondents agreed that “being self-promoting, narcissistic, overconfident, and attention-seeking is helpful for succeeding in a competitive world.”‘

Are you implying that one can be successful today without self-promotion? I find that hard to believe. Those that do not have faith in their own abilities may find it difficult to bring others to trust them to do a job.

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]]> By: cave76 https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-40023 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:54:31 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8885#comment-40023 I’m making no assumptions if this article is right or wrong (probably a mix).

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]]> By: ariehdavid https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-38933 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:43:02 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8885#comment-38933 I am not a psychological expert, and I do no know much about how a test is ‘validated.’ I just simply found the questions to be personally rather impossible to answer and rarely descriptive of my character (I have neither grandiose nor self-deprecating personality traits), and in the article I posted, it seems that other people had similar problems with its dichotomous nature.

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]]> By: Carolyn Thomas https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-38924 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8885#comment-38924 Really? I thought the test was remarkable. It’s apparently widely used and its results validated here: Raskin, R. & Terry, H. (1988). “A Principal-Components Analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and Further Evidence of Its Construct Validity”. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(5)

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]]> By: Arieh https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-38920 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:15:43 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8885#comment-38920 I decided to check out the ‘Narcissistic Personality Inventory.’ I don’t know if this is the same test as what was used for substantiating these correlations but if it is, I am quite skeptical about the results because it is hard for me to believe that this test can or would accurately depict anything about personality, especially narcissism. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-03-16-pinsky-quiz_N.htm

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]]> By: Carolyn Thomas https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-33893 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:50:40 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8885#comment-33893 There are “friends” and then there are “friends”. Personally, I like my real-life warm-body friends . . .

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]]> By: Christina Gregoire https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-33892 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:30:12 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8885#comment-33892 I don’t think anyone has as many friends as he/she boasts on FB. I know quite a few people who embellish their lives a bit. They are family members…so I know this to be true.

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]]> By: Carolyn Thomas https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-32990 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:23:02 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8885#comment-32990 Good question. If you believe the shrink’s bible (the DMS-IV) 0.5-1% of the general population have Narcissistic Personality Disorder (50-75% of those are men). But over 60% of North American adults under age 30 regularly use social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc. Among the older Boomer-aged segment of internet users ages 50-64, about 30% of us are on social media – still far more than the rates of narcissism in the general population. Again, as I mentioned here, not all Facebookers are narcissists, but those with narcissistic tendencies really, really love Facebook.

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]]> By: Bev https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-32989 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:55:04 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8885#comment-32989 I think this generation has been “It’s all about me” right from the start and is just more visible with Facebook. Maybe Facebook just gives people a large population of this generation which is available to look at and study.

And did I misread the studies? How did they compare those found to be narcissistic on Facebook to those people in that generation who aren’t on FB? Did they see how many of that generation who didn’t join it could be considered narcissistic? Maybe they and I, too, am wrong. Maybe a study of the population at large would show they aren’t narcissistic and that those joining FB are perhaps more likely to be the people who are insecure?

Maybe I’m way off base here. Just some questions that come to mind.

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]]> By: Carolyn Thomas https://ethicalnag.org/2012/04/15/facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-32976 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:03:53 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8885#comment-32976 Let’s see . . . “How do you love ME? Let me count my FB friends!” With apologies to Elizabeth, of course . . .

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