Comments on: Facebook Activity Correlate To Low Self-Esteem & Narcissism

By: guest

guest — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:48:21 +0000

This hits the mark, most people on fb are all about beefing themselves up to look like they amount to squat. Then once they are found out they all get defensive, just like people making there argument here they really are pretty pathetic when they know they have been found out. Most people dont realize that they arent going to amount to jack squat and will most likely end up living in a van down by the river. As for the rest of you go back to watching Jersey Shore and trying to impress people with stories that are mostly fictional.

By: Emma Mae

Emma Mae — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:52:47 +0000

Soraya Mehdizadeth's research might have made more of an impression if she had omitted the repeated use of "like" and "sort of" and "sort of like…." from her observations. Is this woman really considering medical school?

By: renovatio06

renovatio06 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:33:24 +0000

Hahahaha! EvidenceSoup and dakiniyearofthetiger: Spot on, folks! I'm in total agreement with you on that one! a) lousy sampling (100… *cough* as in 1-0-0 users set against 500 million? Lousy job!) And b) Apparently someone is upping their self-esteem by meaning to come across as being smarter than the rest of FB? And backing it up with sloppy work and hiding behind her wannabe academic activities? What Daya? You have an sociophobic issue? Agoraphobic? I could always check with your shrink, you know?

Entertaining read though. Thanks for sharing LOL.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:09:09 +0000

100 , really?

Central Limit Theorem states that the sampling distribution curve (for sample sizes of 30 and over) will have all the properties of a normal distribution

By: Siva

Siva — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:50:19 +0000

From the actual paper:

The rater of the participants’ Facebook page was the author
of this study, a 22-year-old female undergraduate student at
York University.

The central concern with this study was the subjectivity in
Facebook page coding. This potential bias could have been
avoided by having several raters who were different in age,
gender, and race.

In summary, 42% of all statistics are made up on the spot…

By: dakiniyearofthetiger

dakiniyearofthetiger — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:00:23 +0000

"I had always suspected that but never had any proof. I have a Facebook account which I hardly use, I have a LinkedIn account which I also hardly use. I don’t have have a Twitter account because I just think it is idiotic however my blog does have a Twitter account, which is really an automated feed to generate traffic but all it has got the blog is endless spam. Does that mean I have a high self-esteem?"

… Close, but no cigar. Presumably the author's need to establish that they don't fit into this category (the grammatical mistakes in the breathlessly rushed, largely defensive final sentence certainly suggest a wee note of desperation) do kind of suggest otherwise. Never mind.

By: @EvidenceSoup

@EvidenceSoup — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:22:47 +0000

Not so fast. This research article is based on "self-esteem and narcissistic personality self-reports …collected from 100 Facebook users at York University." Really? 100 people, self-reporting, and all from the same school? That's pretty lousy sampling from a site with millions upon millions of users around the globe.

To conclude "I had always suspected that but never had any proof" is premature. There still isn't "proof". (But the statement "I have a Facebook account which I hardly use, I have a LinkedIn account which I also hardly use. I don’t have have a Twitter account…" makes me wonder if there's a correlation between smugness and low FaceBook activity.)

By: @EvidenceSoup

@EvidenceSoup — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:43:36 +0000

not so fast. this research article is based on "self-esteem and narcissistic personality self-reports …collected from 100 Facebook users at York University." really? 100 people, all at the same school? that's pretty lousy sampling from a site with millions upon millions of users around the globe.

you conclude that "i had always suspected that but never had any proof." um. you still don't have any "proof". but in saying "I have a Facebook account which I hardly use, I have a LinkedIn account which I also hardly use. I don’t have have a Twitter account…" it sounds like there may be a correlation between smugness and low facebook activity. a research question for another day?

By: FusionX

FusionX — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:14:27 +0000

Well the converse may or may not be true.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:10:38 +0000

Aren't "low self-esteem and narcissism" contradictory? Otherwise I agree with Daya Baran.