Facebook Profiles Out Narcissists

[earlene1212]

LiveScience Staff

LiveScience.com

Fri Sep 26, 9:31 AM ET

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

Comments

[kalaryn]

I'm sort of happy I don't have a facebook but I'm sure the results of facebook would be the same for any socializing site. :)

[earlene1212]

Yeah, I posted that article because I think it relates to any similar sight, especially myspace or even live journal. I think it helps put some perspective on some of the obsessive people you come across on those sights.

[kalaryn]

This is true, and in a way I started to laugh when I think of the pictures that most people post of themselves and I agree with the article.

Hope all is well.

[earlene1212]

Yeah, I thought it was funny too. It's like... Does "coolness" and "popularity" on myspace and facebook equate to mental illness? Ponder that one for a while.

[kalaryn]

Or is mental illness equates to myspace and facebook? Just kidding I think it's sort of like the same conundrum of does life imitate tv or does tv imitate life?