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• 21 Dec 09
  

  yossi ben david

  מדברים כאן על זה שהחברות הוירטואלית כיום זה סוג חדדש של נרקסיזם

• 31 Jul 09
  

  YH Lim

  narcissism social networking social network

• 25 Jul 09
  

  James Cohen

  research online web2.0 internet culture

• 26 Feb 09
  

  Jaehee Jang

  ITGS EE narcissism

• 16 Nov 08
  

  Zohar Manor-Abel

  It's an interesting article about Facebook, and something that I am fascinated about - the effect of technology on the psyche... Especially as I find myself getting more and more hooked to this. This writer also has a piece on Tivo and Playstation, etc., turning kids into monstrous narcissists too. Bring on Gen N.

  narcissism web2.0 socialnetworks article

• 15 Sep 08
  

  saleemelamin
  • This is a quaintly Victorian notion of privacy, embracing the idea that individuals should be able to compartmentalize and parcel out parts of their personalities in different settings. I
  • on the Internet, private misbehavior becomes public exhibitionism.
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  • • But “friendship” in these virtual spaces is thoroughly different from real-world friendship. In its traditional sense, friendship is a relationship which, broadly speaking, involves the sharing of mutual interests, reciprocity, trust, and the revelation of intimate details over time and within specific social (and cultural) contexts. Because friendship depends on mutual revelations that are concealed from the rest of the world, it can only flourish within the boundaries of privacy; the idea of public friendship is an oxymoron.
    • To be sure, we all rank our friends, albeit in unspoken and intuitive ways. One friend might be a good companion for outings to movies or concerts; another might be someone with whom you socialize in professional settings; another might be the kind of person for whom you would drop everything if he needed help.
    • ocial networking websites may make relationships more reliable, but whether those relationships can be humanly satisfying remains to be seen.
• 06 Jul 08
  

  Olivier Le Deuff

  social_networks

• 18 May 08
  

  C. McKell

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