Mobile technology creating narcissism?
At Computerworld, Mike Elgan writes that mobile technology is creating a bunch of self-absorbed narcissists:
While everyone’s on the lookout for risks, such as a Wii controller to the face, or walking into an open sewer while texting, something subtler and more pervasive may be happening. Mobile technology may be transforming us all into raving narcissists.
He continues:
In general, however, everyone goes through narcissistic phases in both childhood and teen years. Normally, we snap out of it when reality smacks us in the face at some point. People learn (often the hard way) to interact with and have consideration for other people. We learn that we can’t get whatever we want whenever we want it. We develop thicker skin about criticism, and sometimes respond to it by striving to do better.
But now it appears that mobile technology, such as cell phones, social networks and mobile software, may be interfering with the natural process of growing up — of learning to evolve beyond adolescent narcissism. It may enable us to live in a self-centered social environment devoid of both non-peers and personal criticism.
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