I take pictures of my kids, things we're doing, or interesting things that I see in my daily life. When OP says "narcissism", he's either following much different people than I do, or he doesn't know what narcissism means.
I suppose it depends on your perspective. When I see people posting endless streams of pictures of their kids, home improvement projects, vacations etc. it appears just as narcissistic to me as posting pictures of you at the club or next to your brand new BMW. Everybody has their preference on what to indulge in throughout life but the universal constant is 'look at me'.
Yes this is relevant. Family pictures used to be something you put in albums and maybe pull out a few times a year to look at as a family.
Publishing all your pictures, all the time is like carrying a projector with slides from random moments in your life to every party you ever go to and setting it up for everyone to see whether they asked you to or not.
It sounds like a crazy thing to all of us who are aware of how things used to be.. but maybe for the next generation this is going to be cultural norm. I don't want to be judgmental and I'm not a psychiatrist so I can't tell if that's positive or negative or even if it's a long-term or short-term phenomenon, but at least for right now, that seems to be how we're evolving.
Yep, I agree. What some consider normal sharing can be considered narcissism by others.
We're just so immersed with our own life, that we never stop and consider whether others would actually care if we shared something.
And a platform can enhance the narcissism. Take any humble person and throw him into Twitter, and he/she can't help but tell everyone about their great life, or how they suffer more than others.
I take pictures of my kids, things we're doing, or interesting things that I see in my daily life. When OP says "narcissism", he's either following much different people than I do, or he doesn't know what narcissism means.