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4      NARCISSISM
AND SOCIAL MEDIA

In what way does online voyeurism change the perception of our Selves?

4.1    PSYCHE BEFORE
MULTI–MEDIA TIMES

4.2 Natrration of online self permeates to one’s persona

4.2   BETWEEN THE OUTER
AND PERSONA GENERATES
ONLINE REALM

4.2 Natrration of online self permeates to one’s persona

4.3   NARRATION OF ONLINE SELF PERMEATES TO ONE’S PERSONA

4.2 Natrration of online self permeates to one’s persona

4.4   

4.5   TRANSFORMATION
OF ONLINE SELF

4.3 THE TRANFORMATION OF ONLINE SELF

4.6   EFFECT OF MULTI-MEDIA
ON SELF

4.4 AFFECT OF MULTI-MEDIA ON SELF

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.

4.5 RECOGNITION OF OTHER SELVES

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.

4.6 MUTTUAL AFFECT OF THE SELVES

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.

4.7   ONLINE ACCOMPLISHMENT

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.

4.8   NEW VOYEURISM

Constant Online attention grows in a load of enduring structureless fragments, by carrying messages about ourselves to others, we become indispensable, self-centered, and egoistic.
As a narcissistic society that is able to acknowledge quite a specific image of a unified whole, we are “forced” to take an interest in multi-media. In turn, it generates a universal narcissistic fascination with Voyeurism. ‘Voyeurism has traditionally meant the pleasure of secretly crossing the borders of a foreign territory, looking through a slit into the secret of another. However, in today’s Information era, Voyeurism is becoming an accepted universal standard.’ [16]
Voyeurism alleviates the weight of perception on the self, that brings us safe pleasure - we need to see but mainly to be seen, we find delight in online comparisons. ‘What is unique about digital narcissism is not the mechanism of narcissism itself, but a kind of megaphone effect with increased opportunities for pursuing narcissistic goals, if not also a competitive pressure to be seen and heard in a vast ocean of social media noise.’ [17]
Thus the unknown has lost its delightful scent, its pheromones or musk. The unknown was completely revealed, the new Voyeurism set a new trend of known unknown. Vaclaj Hajek states in his essay Orgies of narcissism, self, super-face, visual self-righteous, ‘it is more interesting for us to focus on facts on self-reflection, self-esteem and self-presentation…The previously hidden unknown stands before us in its nudity and at the same time frightening, which no longer attracts or seduces us.’ [16]