Facebook Diseases??

"The way of the world is meeting people through other people"

- Robert Kerrigan

So I don't know how many of you get magazine's sent to your house but I have like three subscriptions and so I have thousands of magazines around the first week every month. But anyway I read two interesting magazine articles on several effects of websites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. Like Facebook Narcissism and how Facebook is just another excuse for people to talk about themselves and post misleading pictures of themselves as well. And posting status' about themselves more than 10 times a day. I myself admit that I started off that way but now I'm liable to only post a status every two days. Supposedly as well these can lead to long term problems in life, I who am taking Psychology this year (though I will admit I pay less attention than I really should) have either not gotten to that lesson or haven't payed attention enough to hear about it. To be honest though I believe that you have to already be narcissistic to allow something as trivial as this to make you even more narcissistic.

The most important, I believe is Facebook isolation (I say this while logging onto to Facebook). Social networks allow more ways to hurt people that you don't even mean to hurt or even do mean to hurt. There are hundreds of ways that are never possible before, you could post status' about each other, name your best friends, and you can even rank your best friends! I know that I have been a victim whether or not purposely and that I have been a victimizer purposely and non-purposely. Honestly when you see someone that has done that and hurts you, you just want to do the same thing, and in the end probably end up hurting someone else. And it happens all the time. What do you think? Have you ever hurt someone that way?  Have you been hurt that way? Are you a Facebook Narcassist?

These are the questions that haunt me.