4 NARCISSISM
AND SOCIAL MEDIA
In what way does online voyeurism change the perception of our Selves?
In what way does online voyeurism change the perception of our Selves?
What is the Online-self trying to accomplish by generating the dream to be admired behind every corner? Aiming for thousands of likes and infinitive views, by producing material that no one can remember.
RECOGNITION
OF THE OTHERS
What is the Online-self trying to accomplish by copying the patches of others, hence setting the trends? The speed of spreading the information is so fast, the first resistance to unusualities turns into an affected assumption in a second. Dominating stupidity and its repetition cause unconventional thus blind support.
What is the Online-self trying to accomplish by pretending the comprehension of unfamiliar matters? One sits wherever around the world by the small or big screen, as the one used to sit in the backyard, bordered by a fence and possibilities. The only thing that has generally changed is the amount of received information.
What is the Online-self trying to accomplish by daily following others’ life achievements? The quantity, that arouses desires in one, makes one possessive, jealous, anxious, as a consequence of daily feed one allows emotional disturbance, blocks one’s own growth.
MUTUAL EFFECT
OF THE SELVES
What is the Online-self trying to accomplish by depriving the privacy of other’s personas including one’s own? The animus is the only part of our personas that remain uncontaminated. By extracting one’s narcissistic Egos back, one could for once act as a spectator, not as an actor.
Therefore, I think it would be wrong to say that Narcissus is uninterested in others, in society. And so one assumes that others will be also fascinated by one’s own worldly image. ‘The contemporary Narcissus, however, cannot be so certain of their own taste.’ [14]
‘Today we are unable to like ourselves if we are not liked by the society in which we live.’ [14] And in our society we have to become active if we want to be the objects of others’ admiration. Kathleen also declares that in order to achieve public admiration, one must practice Self-design and its demonstration.