The Pros And Cons Of Narcissism

Have you ever been at 2 in the morning checking out your facebook account? Or twittering something at an ungodly hour? If you say yes to one of the above then you like me are social network obsessionist. A couple of days I ago I had to come up with a research question. And after of too much thinking I came up with “ Why are people so obsessed with social networking?” I have always wanted to know why people are so drawn to social websites.
A answer that I have always given myself was that people are so obsessed with social media, because it gives them freedom to express themselves in a way they can’t in real life. The cyber world is a open field were rules and expectation can be sometimes ignore and minimize to best fit one 's own interests.

It hadn’t cross my mind before. But after reading through the article done by the Appalachian State University and High Point University. I think that maybe is true and narcissism could be a reason why people feel attracted to use more their social sites.The article calls millennial 's narcissistic individuals which I think is sort of accurate by the way a lot of people act with their social media accountants. For example they state narcissist behaviors that people do with their social networking accountants are a way to seek attention. “SNSs provide easy opportunities for narcissists to engage in the exhibitionism and attention-seeking behaviors that partly define this personality trait, and which help narcissists maintain their grandiose self-images”(Bergman). Attention why haven’t I thought about that before. Social networking users want attention. That why millions of people are on all the time. This new generation is seeking attention. After reasoning through the article I thinking it might be correct. Observing the people around me I can see the truth to the article, somebody is taking a picture of himself with a weird pose and making it a trend. Somebody else posts how they are feeling every two hours. Another person posts everlys single event in their daily life for others to see. I could tell that we have become narcissistic individuals. We are trying to find ways where we are accepted

A study done with college student it said some students just join the group chats because of peer pressure or they just wanted to look cool in front of their peers. “ The respondents answered that they joined groups because they felt peer pressure, wanted to make themselves look cool, and to develop their career”(Park). Peer pressure and SNS can go hand and hand in my opinion. A lot of the things that I see when I open my account is somebody else trying to imitate what another has done. When was I was a freshman in highschool I decide to not have a social network account until I was in college. At the time most of my friends had several accountant in different sites. They would usually try to push me to open one. But I try my best to ignore them. It was hard I had never experiences peer pressure before, but during that time it was hard to say no. Everybody had a account and I sometimes felt like I was left to a side when they would talk about posting stuff. After reading this article and seeing the response of the people saying that it was just to look good or because of peer pressure. I praise myself to not open accountant when my friends told me too. Instead I open it when I want