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The Internet Narcissism Epidemic

Here's a fascinating article in The Atlantic that claims we're in the middle of a raging "narcissism epidemic." According to the article, "One study they describe showed that among a group of 37,000 college students, narcissistic personality traits rose just as quickly as obesity from the 1980s to the present." And social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have helped to accelerate our plunge into narcissism.

Elias Aboujaoude, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford notes that in "virtual space many of the physical interactions that restrain behavior vanish. Delusions of grandeur, narcissism, viciousness, impulsivity, and infantile behavior for some individuals rise to the surface."

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