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"Like many teens, Amanda, seventeen, spends a lot of time on Facebook--enough to discover which of her friends are a little too enamored of their online personas. Most post once a day or so, the...\n\nfacebook dialogPinterest\n\nAmanda isn't the only one who's noticed overt self-involvement on social networking sites. Karolyn, a junior from Germantown, Wisconsin, mentions a classmate with over 1600 Facebook friends: \"There are only 1300 kids in our school!\" says the sixteen-year-old. \"The more friends he has, the better he feels about himself.\" Julie, a seventeen-year-old from Chicago, admits to her own obsession: \"I couldn't check my Facebook profile recently when my Internet connection was down,\" she says. \"I felt like I was in withdrawal--I went to a friend's house to update.\"\n\nRegularly checking Twitter or Facebook might be part of your daily routine, but new research questions if it's emotionally healthy to spend so much time talking about your life in such detail. A recent poll from Ypulse, a youth marketing firm, and Jean Twenge, a San Diego State University psychologist and coauthor of The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (Free Press), found that almost 60 percent of college students agreed with the statement \"People in my generation use social networking sites for self-promotion, narcissism, and attention-seeking.\" Julie says that she sees how constantly networking online could lead to an inflated sense of self--but she likes the ego boost she gets from posting. \"If people 'like' your status or comment a lot, your self-esteem goes up,\" she says. Getting some attention is one thing--but divulging every thought in your head is another. \"A blatant example of Facebook narcissism is the person who's posted 200 pictures just of themselves,\" says Twenge."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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