Welcome to living in bloody China
Nesrie
2042
Here’s the problem though…
Narcissists present success and on Social Media… certainly seems true. It’s hard to discourage behavior that turn some into millionaires.
The researchers also found that individuals from the northeastern United States tended to post more selfies than those from the midwestern United States and those from Lebanon.
This passage seems weird because… what about the west or the south? I mean, does that mean it’s equal?
KevinC
2043
Hah, right? This goes back to the very early 2000’s before social media or smart phones were a thing, but I had this co-worker who covered every inch of her cubicle walls with photographs of herself. I don’t mean photos of her and her friends or family, just photos of her. Everywhere. Hundreds of them. She was friendly enough, even if a little stuck on herself (also a shocker, I’m sure). When Instagram became a thing it must have been like the Rapture for her.
If you go back to the original paper, it answers that question for you:
Therefore, the current study investigated whether selfie-posting could be predicted by narcissism, demographics, and community membership. Participants from the Midwest US ( n = 194), Northeast US ( n = 276), and the Lebanese Republic ( n = 260) took an online survey. Results supported a two-component structure for covert narcissism, suggesting that this variable should be considered multidimensional in nature. Selfie-posting frequency was predicted by gender, geographic community, and grandiose narcissism. Participants who were female, from the Northeast, and reported more grandiose narcissism posted selfies more frequently. Findings suggest that selfie-posting is favored by those with more histrionic tendencies (grandiose narcissism) and that community norms, including those which shape gendered behavior, likely play a role in the active use of social media sites.
Nesrie
2045
So they didn’t actually include the West and South… so they don’t know.
Yeah, and their sample size was potentially very low (the higher the sample size, the smaller the difference in groups needs to be to determine the effect is non-random, so it’s hard to say anything about statistics without knowing the effect size[1]), and they relied on self-reported metrics, which aren’t usually as accurate.
[1] Note that when sample size is small and you DO see an effect, it’s often true that you “got lucky” and over-estimated the effect of the answer. This is “winners curse”.
Nesrie
2047
Just due to demographics and access to the internet, like easy access, I would expect the West Coast to be right up there with the NE is why I was wondering why the NE got called out like that. I mean a study of selfies and they leave out… something like Silicon Valley… part of the largest state, by population, in the union.
I guess we’ll have to wait for further studies in this area to nail it down. Who knows, these smaller studies can lead to larger ones too.
Clay
2048
Here’s a fun link… This will take you to an official Facebook page that tells you what Facebook knows about you from activity on non-Facebook websites. Ugh.
https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/
I believe I turned off all that stuff, but I have no idea if that means FB will continue to collect stuff. I barely even go to FB and never post on my page, but they had a lot of sites I’ve visited.
Hm. I’m torn.
I want to disable everything there, just out of principle.
However, my job means I go to a lot of websites that i actually have no interest in. So, a lot of the data they have on me is useless at best, and misleading at worst. So I kind of like poisoning their data pool with garbage.
KevinC
2051
I don’t have a Facebook account but I’m really interested in what kind of profile they’ve built on me through friends and family who are on it. Is there anything like that out there? Would be super interesting and creepy.
Among other practices, I tag myself in pictures of ancient statues, WWI soldiers, cute little kids, mustelids, Red Sonja, 70s Heavy Metal comics, vintage toys, orangutans, Popeye characters, etc. etc.
I approve of this technique, JMJ
Sure, we know all about that. But this is supposed to be about tricking the algorithms.
Holy cats, it’s 90% mobile crap. I mean, fine apps.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3351095.3372879
If this isn’t a Black Mirror episode I don’t know what is:
Nesrie
2059
So this little “gem” is floating around my social media circles lately.
On the surface, this seems fine but what’s weird about it is… there is no way that is Japanese in origin. I don’t know what the purpose is in lying like that is, but you can tell from the structure of the whole thing that’s very likely English in Origin and… seems to be attributed most to a Cowboy Way or a Cowboy Motto which also doesn’t have a set origin I can find.
If anyone took more than a second liking the feeling that this conveys, they’d know there is no way that’s a Japanese saying, of any kind.
