Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

[Froderik]

Self-Presentation 2.0: Narcissism and Self-Esteem on Facebook

Abstract

Online social networking sites have revealed an entirely new method of self-presentation. This cyber social tool provides a new site of analysis to examine personality and identity. The current study examines how narcissism and self-esteem are manifested on the social networking Web site Facebook.com. Self-esteem and narcissistic personality self-reports were collected from 100 Facebook users at York University. Participant Web pages were also coded based on self-promotional content features. Correlation analyses revealed that individuals higher in narcissism and lower in self-esteem were related to greater online activity as well as some self-promotional content. Gender differences were found to influence the type of self-promotional content presented by individual Facebook users. Implications and future research directions of narcissism and self-esteem on social networking Web sites are discussed:

http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/full/1 ... .2009.0257

[Che Gookin]

They put too much into it. Social networking is an entirely new way for drama queens to be even bigger drama queens.

[DannyB II]

They put too much into it. Social networking is an entirely new way for drama queens to be even bigger drama queens.

You would know my fine ass queen.