Facebook is fun place to share stories and content. Most users of social networking was even felt the need to frequently update their status to ‘exist’. Did you include users who like that?

If so, this is the sign you reincarnate as a narcissistic person. Because, according to a study conducted by Soraya Mehdizadeh, researchers from York University, Canada, users are constantly updating Facebook tend to be narcissistic.

This study also found that Facebook is a haven of friendship for narcissists people because they can be friends with as many people as possible without having to establish a real friendship.

It is said by Mehdizadeh, for narcissistic people, Facebook is helping them to control how they see friends or people they want.

In his study, Mehdizadeh surveyed 100 participants aged 18 to 25 years about the use of Facebook. After that, they were given psychological tests to determine how much they seek the attention of people and consider themselves important.

Result, there are positive relationship between level of narcissism identified through test results, with how frequently participants check their Facebook accounts. Thus information quoted from the Telegraph.

Mehdizadeh study published in the journal Cyberpsychology also found that male participants prefer to make the posting of papers on their profile. While women tend to like to post photos to add value to update their stories.

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