Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-9-2010

[andrewducker]

• Special units encourage more rape victims to seek help
  (tags: uk rape wales)
• High Facebook use correlated with high levels of narcissism and low levels of self-esteem
  (tags: psychology facebook narcissism socialnetworking)
• Monstrous discrepancies
  (tags: comics posters)
• 80,000 and Counting, Brain Implants on the Rise World Wide
  (tags: brain cybernetics science technology)
• What is Vince Cable really saying about how to make science cutbacks?
  (tags: science politics research uk)
• Coalition launches extradition treaty review.
  (tags: politics law uk usa)
• The .NET Micro Framework - using C# on tiny processor boards
  (tags: computers computing)
• Science spending cuts: what was actually said.
  (tags: science politics uk)

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Facebook: Gosh! What a surprise!

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

How does the Facebook study look in the light of your dubiousness (at least) about self-esteem.

I'm a little surprised (should I be?) that they checked for a corelation between logging in and narcissism rather than amount of posting.

[andrewducker]

I don't have any dubiousness about self-esteem. It definitely exists.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I'm a little surprised (should I be?) that they checked for a corelation between logging in and narcissism rather than amount of posting.

Me too, very much so. I'm pretty much constantly logged-in to Facebook, and I am indeed high in narcissism and low on self-esteem. However, compared to most of my friends I post very little, and I only ever glance down my news feed in terms of interaction. I use Facebook as a tool for looking at photos of my friends, organising my social calendar, and communicating with people I don't talk to often enough to remember their email off-hand.