Is Social Media Promoting Personality Disorders?
How many hours a day do you spend on Social Media?
New studies have shown that excessive use of social media can promote the development of Narcissistic Personality Disorders?
Whether it is Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, our social media profiles are nothing like our real life.
Sitting in our bed, having our morning coffee, we would be posting pictures about the trip we took to the Maldives all those years ago.
We would spend hours editing our pictures, our selfies, and in the end, have them nothing looking like the original picture.
Is all of this normal? Aren’t we showing a completely different personality on every Social Media Platform?
In particular, social networking Web sites — nonexistent just years ago — have drawn literally millions of users. Web sites such a MySpace .com (total users: 90 million per month; Stone, 2007) and Facebook.com (total users: 21 million members; Geist, 2007) have been at the forefront of this migration.
The most disturbing this is that social media gives us the easy way out. A shortcut to life, a false picture almost like a hallucination of what our life is as opposed to what it really is.
