The study found that Facebook user's friends become more the more narcissistic

More social networking site Facebook users have friends on the site, they are more and more narcissistic. This confirms the conclusions previously had questioned by the many social media.

Facebook users in the Narcissistic Personality Inventory questionnaire, the higher score they got, the site has more friends marked themselves more frequently update their dynamic information more ground.

The results of this study have been published in the journal of personality and individual differences. It also found that the narcissist released for public information of the social networking site wall of negative comments about their reaction is more intense, more frequent update their profile page.

Previously, some research results will be narcissistic use Facebook contact up. However, the findings are the first proof of the number of friends of Facebook users is directly related to their narcissistic extent.

West University of Illinois researchers studied 294 users of the Facebook habits, their age between 18-65 years old, and measure the two forms of narcissism: For super performance is at GE and pretentious is at EE.

The desire includes "self-appreciation, vanity, arrogance, and the performance of the tendency of self". Higher score they got in the investigation of this narcissistic need to continue to cause the attention of others. They will usually say something to shock the world, or inappropriately exposing privacy, because they do not want to be overlooked or missed the opportunity to express themselves. Pretentious performance includes "thinks that he deserves the respect of others, willing to manipulate and use others. The study found that people at GE, the higher the score, the more the number of friends are on Facebook, some users even have over 800 friends. Score higher is at EE, but also easier to accept friend requests from strangers, and to seek help from others, however, they are less willing to provide help to others.

The background to the study, more and more evidence proof that young people are becoming more and more narcissistic, more and more obsessed with self-image and superficial friendship. British teenagers are becoming more narcissistic, and Facebook provide them with a social scientist and self-confidence and happiness research Centre for the Confidence and Well-being CEO Carol Craig said that they will provide the platform to show this feature.