Facebook users 'are insecure, narcissistic and have low self-esteem'

[Maccapacca]

Don't you just like the irony that you can share that article on facebook by the link at the bottom

I just linked it to my FB for the ironing

 

[trackrat]

It seems that a lot on this forum read the Daily Mail, judging by the posts about articles in this paper.
I don't agree with the whole article, but to me Twitter is the place where the morons hang out, who is interested in knowing if an over payed prima donna uses X paper to wipe his backside.
What is the point of Twitter and other sites like it ?.

 

[joey1211]

Getting old... happens to the best of us. Bet you have already made the switch from Radio 1 to 2 too!

I've switched to Radio 4 and i'm only 32.

 

[Priapus]

What is the point of Twitter and other sites like it ?.

Ever since the launch of Twitter - I am still unable to answer this question. What's the point??

Facebook, however I do get the point of it. A way to communicate with family members and friends you don't see often. I still speak to all my friends in UK. (I have since moved back home to SA)

But Twitter? Seriously?

 

[V4NT0M]

Facebook users 'are insecure, narcissistic and have low self-esteem'

I hate generalisations. At least preface it with "most" or "in general", oh but wait, that wouldn't make such a great headline!

 

[iamtheoneneo]

i actually agree (yes cant beleive iv said it)
fb - an excuse for the vain , hopeless individuals out there to further their attempt at a 'life'

not all fb users are like that tho, but you know the ones: constantly updating ****, putting photos, spamming everyones walls, commenting on everything......

 

[Rameses]

Wooo she's using a MacBook Air....

Booo she's using a Nokia N95....





EDIT!.....wait a minute! she's using Window XP on a MacBook Air! How dare she!

 

[bhavv]

Wow, I'm unpopular ....

I only have 23 friends on facebook

Maybe I should just start adding random people to bring it up to the same several hundred that everyone else has

Or not.

 

[Rameses]

On a serious note, pretty much everyone suffers from low self-asteem now and again, and people now manifest that feeling towards FB.

I myself constantly check FB during the day, its a way of having a laugh and keeping up to date with people, and reading any funny links and/or videos that might be posted, sometimes its the only 'socialising' I can do!

Self promotion has always been around, or the need to let people know what they've recently done or got, FB just makes it a lot more easier and blatant I guess.

ADD ME I WANT MOAR FRIENDS LOL.

 

[Azza]

Anyone got a link to the full pdf paper that the DM is supposed to be referencing?

Here you go.


http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/full/10.1089/cyber.2009.0257

 

[vintage-x]

I admit I use facebook a lot. I have spent all my life moving around and phoneing all my old friends costs more money than sending a quick message on facebook or speaking on chat.

Some people on there do annoy me though with their status updates. I dont care if you are going for a shower really tell me something interesting.

 

[Greenlizard0]

I hate generalisations. At least preface it with "most" or "in general", oh but wait, that wouldn't make such a great headline!

Almost ironically enough, the real world isn't full of forumite pedants.