Me me me ... it's all about ME !!!

Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are gaining popularity beyond believe. I bet that whoever is reading this already has an online profile, perhaps even multiple ones?

But have you ever considered why you have an online profile? Why you put certain pictures online and other ones not? Why you feel the need to have so many friends? ...

I'm completely fed up with people sending me invitations to join their network of friends! I'm fed up with people thinking that I would be interested in every little detail of their life... And just when I thought I had seen it all, welcome Twitter. Twitter? you ask. Twitter is what SMS is to the cell phone, but worse. It is the ultimate information cluttering system! Let's see what information people put on their Twiter stream: Out for lunch - Feeling lazy today - Just got back from swimming - Hate the weather today. I mean really, have we gone mad???

Perhaps the profecy was right, perhaps this is the year when Revelation 13 becomes a fact. Are Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn the 4 horsemen that where predicted to ride during an apocalyptic period with wars, weather changes, earthquakes, plagues, economic disaster, etc. Are they the downfall of mankind...

Perhaps, if only for a second, it is worth examining why we have online profile, why we have the need for so many buddies, the need to follow the life of others or for others to follow our life...

The answer to these questions is twofold.

In life we have leaders and followers. People follow leaders because they represent success and apparent likeability. Someone who has 500 online friends is perceived to be more likeable than someone who has 5.

So who are these perceived online leaders, these Gods of the 21th century?

Now it gets funny, a new study on narcissism and social networking sites has found that sites like Facebook are littered with narcissists; not really cool people who everyone wants to hang out with but narcissists!

Narcissists are people who focus entirely on themselves; they also believe everyone else should focus their attention on them as well! They are attention seekers who rarely develop any long-term relationships or any deep and meaningful relationships.

Narcissists tend to be likeable, friendly and easy to get on with; often they are fun to be with. But it is all a sham - in reality they are only behaving like this in order to get your attention and fuel their addiction for being seen as wonderful.

And followers want to be like the leaders, likeable, having many friends ...
Can we conclude we are all narcissists? But some are better at it than others? When did we stop having a life?

So ask yourself this question: Are you a narcist?
Why do did you put those particular pictures online and not those other ones?
Why do you provide people with information on yourselves?
Why do you provide people with some information and some not?
Why only the things that make you shine; make you likeable?
Why do you link to people you bearly know?
Why ...

Stupid you!
Don't say I haven't warned you!