re: Marking yourself safe on Facebook... the height of narcissism

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Facebook in general is the height of narcissism.

The “happy birthday to my kids” post and pic collage, when your kid is a child and isn’t even on FB. Really examine that - what is the root reason people do that? It’s a “look at me and my kid and how great they are and how great my life is”

The “happy anniversary to the best husband in the world!” Post. Why don’t you walk over to your husband 10 feet away and tell him to his face how much you love him? Because the post isn’t about him or your love. The post is “look at how perfect our life is”

And we’re all susceptible to it. We’ve all made posts on social media to bring attention to ourself. It’s human nature to want to feel important. But it’s toxic. If you really examine the motivations to why people post on FB, and the validation they’re seeking from it - to me it has become a platform that has evolved to feed the narcissist in all of us and ultimately will slowly and slowly make us a more self-centered population. Think we’re already seeing that to some degree.

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