{"id":23708,"date":"2014-01-11T11:11:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23708"},"modified":"2014-03-18T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T13:28:17","slug":"do-you-tweet-a-lot-you-might-just-be-a-narcissist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/01\/11\/do-you-tweet-a-lot-you-might-just-be-a-narcissist\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you tweet a lot? You might just be a narcissist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure this even rises to the level of &#8220;bleeding obvious&#8221;, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/navigation\/nature-and-technology\/narcissists-new-need-twitter-followers-72485\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Jacobs<\/a> connects the dots to make the point that narcissists on <em>Twitter<\/em> send frequent tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spotting a narcissist can be tricky, but newly published research suggests a tell-tale marker: Note how often he or she tweets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNarcissism does appear to be a primary driver for the desire for (<em>Twitter<\/em>) followers, which in turn drives tweets,\u201d writes a research team led by Shaun Davenport of High Point University.<\/p>\n<p>It reports in the journal <em>Computers in Human Behavior<\/em> that study participants with narcissistic tendencies tended to tweet more often than others, as well as to post more <em>Facebook<\/em> status updates.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing the two social media platforms, the researchers found a generational divide, noting that \u201cnarcissistic college students prefer to post content on <em>Twitter<\/em>, while narcissistic adults prefer to post content on <em>Facebook<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This appears to reflect a difference in <em>Facebook<\/em> usage between millennials and members of earlier generations, with  millennials\u2019 posting of status updates being more routine and less likely to reflect narcissistic motives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to David Warren, who makes the obvious point:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Narcissism alert: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ra6nPtvCqi\">http:\/\/t.co\/ra6nPtvCqi<\/a> &#8230; (This article was written exclusively in the hope it would make a splash on Twitter.)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Warren (@DavidWarrenOn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidWarrenOn\/statuses\/422018254261870592\">January 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure this even rises to the level of &#8220;bleeding obvious&#8221;, but Tom Jacobs connects the dots to make the point that narcissists on Twitter send frequent tweets: Spotting a narcissist can be tricky, but newly published research suggests a tell-tale marker: Note how often he or she tweets. \u201cNarcissism does appear to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[391,956,593,310],"class_list":["post-23708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-facebook","tag-millennials","tag-socialmedia","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6ao","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23709,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23708\/revisions\/23709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}