Facebook Profiles Out Narcissists (LiveScience)

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Facebook Profiles Out Narcissists

Facebook profiles can tell you more than just peoples' birthdays and what movies they like - they can reveal the self-adoring, a new study suggests.

Researchers at the University of Georgia gave personality questionnaires to nearly 130 Facebook users and analyzed the content of their online profiles. They also had untrained observers look at the profiles and rate how narcissistic, or excessively egotistical, the owners of the profiles were.

The results of the study are detailed in the October issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

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Doesn't surprise me surprisingly.. I don't like facebook... it bores me.. and that's exactly the feeling I get when I try and talk to people there.

Is this about people with Narcissistic PD or just people with big egos?

Maybe its true for some people, I just use it to keep in contact with family and friends

I think a certain level of narcissism can be good. (Better than me with my low self esteem) Nothing wrong with people thinking highly of themselves. However, from what I've read of NPD...sounds pretty rough. Not something I would want to have at all.

Seems to point out the obvious.

This doesn't surprise me, I use facebook only to keep in touch with friends and that is pretty much it. I like meeting some new people that I have things in common with but thats it, but it doesn't surprise me as I have seen some profiles and just

I am sure my mother in law has NPD, she fits it pretty well, thank goodness I don't see her often.