New Narcissism
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New Narcissism is a newer and a more modern version of the phenomenon narcissism. The number of narcissistic people is bigger then ever according to studies by psychologists. The phenomenon narcissism is a product of the story of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection. So all in all narcissism means that people are falling in love with their own reflections, and think they are better then everyone.

Sigmund Freud was the first person to introduce the word narcissism in relation to psychiatry. Soon afterwards the term was associated with tings like vanity, conceit and egotism.
“ – in short, narcissists were the kind of men who, were they given the choice of taking one personal effect to a desert island, would choose a mirror.”

The writer, Sarfraz Manzoor, of the article me me me is presenting narcissistic people as “attention-seeking, internet-enabled and celebrity-crazed ”. For instance he gives an example with a young guy called Chris Crocker who made a video-clip where he told the whole world to “leave Britney alone”, and afterwards he put it on YouTube. Chris Crocker is a product of the society we have today, because he’s seeking the attention.

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Text 2 and 3 has totally different views on the youth and narcissism.
Text 2 is presenting narcissism as a very dangerous thing, because young people are getting to high expectations compared to what they are able to do. The lead author professor Jean Twenge of San Diego University, who calls this generation “generation me”, is convinced that young people are setting to high and to unrealistic goals, that most of them won’t be able to reach.
“ Generation Me’s expectations are highly optimistic: they expect to go to college, to make lots of money and perhaps even to be famous.”

Oppositely text 2 and Jean Twenge, doesn’t text 3 and former president Jimmy Carter seems to have noticed any significant changes in the way young people sees themselves and acts. A test made by some psychologists from University of Western Ontario, where they tested 25.00 people and measured their narcissism, showed that the number of narcissism was equal to numbers 30 years ago.

The two texts are totally contradictions. One of them thinks youngsters are setting to high goals and see themselves as something unique, while the other one hasn’t noticed any difference in the way youngsters act or behave.

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Social networks like Facebook and MySpace are both tools that a lot of people use in their everyday life. Facebook gives people an opportunity to stay in touch with people the care about, but maybe lives very far away. You also get the opportunity to “spy” and check what other people are up to, for instance you can se who is dating who etc.

There are also negative affects in all of these social networks. Some people with low self-esteem, who might be a bit overweigh or just think that they aren’t good enough, might be searching around on Facebook, looking at people they wished they looked like or people they find attractive, makes them so upset that some of these people create a false profile and use a strangers pictures to attract people.

A German study I read a few months ago showed that after visiting the social network Facebook people were siting with a feeling of jealousy, which I find very true. Your page might be filled with pictures of your friend lying on a gorgeous beach or eating on the finest restaurant in town, and all people can think when they see these pictures is “why isn’t that me?”

Even though social networks like Facebook gives people a feeling of jealousy, I can’t see that it should have a directly harmful effect on people.