Facebook ‘fiends’ are narcissistic, insecure, study says

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Facebook fiends are narcissistic

Doesn't take a study to figure this out, I have a FB account and only 13 friends on it, I have heard that narcissism is not co-morbid with people who are on the autistic spectrum

correlation does not equal causation.

Welll, my friends on there are not narcissistic. We all made accounts in order to keep in touch with eachother after high school.

I don't HAVE many friends and I don't really consider myself a narcissist...quite the opposite. But I have noticed that the random strangers who befriend me never say hello or reciprocate my messages. Whenever I go on their site I notice they have almost 300+ friends especially girls on their site and lot's of pics of themselves. I just delete them as it's annoying to have spam. I like to know what's going on with people who actually do contribute and find it useful to get to know some people better.

Last edited by MissConstrue on 08 Sep 2010, 12:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I don't update that often, I mostly just comment on stuff.
But my profile does have a lot written down, and I do like changing it. Sooo I dunno if I'm a facebook narcisssist or not. I don't think I'm insecure though.

I guess I should have asked does anyone feel they never really fit in on facebook, like you can have hundreds of friends but do you know any of them?
Sorry if I came off as a b***h, just feeling a little alienated by facebook and second life

True. However, findings like these are part of the reason I don't even HAVE a Facebook account (other reasons include the really lousy privacy settings I keep hearing about).



That's a decent reason--I just don't have that many people I care to keep in touch with.



I can imagine feeling that way (and would rather not actually experience it).

Thank you for posting this.

There's a lot of social networks where I feel completley alienated. FB is just one of them. I notice a lot of people replying in eachother's profiles and making friends. My sisters who were friends with eachother ignored my request on FB to be friends until another party brought it up. It is a bit alienating but then again I'm not much of an extravert. I've felt the same way with forums as well. I've had to leave a couple of them because some of the members respond to eachother rather than the topics and most of my replies I don't get a response. I've had to leave because of it. Your feeling is completely understandable and relevant. I sometimes compare it to high school except I don't let it bother me as much as I use to and am able to get away from it.

I'd say it depends on who your friends with. My friends are people who are generally not narcissistic (except maybe 1)... but I might not be picking up on the narcissism.

Yeah, facebook "fiends" suck. :p

Although I really don't pay much attention to anyone on my facebook. Its just NTs and their NT lives that I can't really relate to anyway.

well, i certainly agree with the ......fiends.....part. just kidding the frisky girl. no need to apologize for being the b-word. you have every right in the world to be b----y whenever you want too.

not everyone can be like me.....always have emotions under control, never trash anyone, able to go with opposing points of view, tolerant of religion, hahahahahahhhhhahaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahhaahaaa. oh man, i'm so funny.

i think we have 2 friends on fb. one is louie's doc and the other is some guy who said he'd kill us if we wouldn't be his friend. nice crazy person....we're your friend. for sure.

My FB rule is not to friend anyone I don't know in real life, so far it has worked out well for me. I mostly use FB to keep in touch with my existing friends rather than trying to make new ones, I hate the phone so it's really handy as a way of keeping up with party invites and who's doing what.

Ya that the same for me now, only the odd friend and my sister and cousins, since they can't be bothered to use the phone these days, I refuse to get an iphone or crackberry

I actually only have one person on my FB 'friends' list that i met on FB specifically, and she's on the spectrum, also working as an advocate (awesome!). Everyone else, I know (either online or IRL) or am related to (it's a big, extended family).

You sound like neither a b***h nor a narcissist. You sound like someone (like myself) that would just like some acknowledgment from people who say they're 'friends'. I don't find that unreasonable.

And no, I don't feel like I fit in, with exception to a few. FB kinda sux.

I do have an account on FB and regret getting a FB page in the first place.

On my Facebook, I only post a status maybe once a week. I know all my friends. I should probably cull out the ones that won't talk to me as well.

yeah, thats basically what I use it for, and yes, I hate phones with a passion.