Do You Love Yourself?

Got this from a short article in Reader's Digest:

"Face it: You love yourself. Take a look at my Facebook page, aren't I gorgeous, glamorous and successful? Facebook, the online networking phenomenon, has 100,000 million users with pages full of photos and update on its users' latest endeavours. But these pages can reveal more than first thought - it can be expose narcissists. Reserchers at the University of Georgia asked untrained observers to look at the pages of 130 Facebook users. Glamourous self-potraits, long lists of friends and self-promoting "wall" comments all indicated an unhealthy level of vanity. Study author Keith Campbell says, "Narcissists are using Facebook the same way they use their other relationships: for self-promotion, with an emphasis on the quantity over quality."

WOW.

According to Wikipedia, Nacissism means the trait of excessive self-love, based on self-image or ego. The term is derived from the Greek mythology of Narcissus. Narcissus was a handsome Greek youth who rejected the desperate advances of the nymph Echo. As punishment, he was doomed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Unable to consummate his love, Narcissus pined away and changed into the flower that bears his name, the narcissus.

In psychology and psychiatry, excessive narcissism is recognized as a severe personality dysfunction or personality disorder, most characteristically Narcissistic personality disorder, also referred to as NPD.

Sigmund Freud believed that some narcissism is an essential part of all of us from birth and was the first to use the term in the reference to psychology. Andrew Morrison claims that, in adults, a reasonable amount of healthy narcissism allows the individual's perception of his needs to be balanced in relation to others. The terms narcissism, narcissistic, and narcissist are often used as pejoratives, denoting vanity, conceit, egoism or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.

Narcissus by Caravaggio
A Boeotian hero whose archaic myth was a cautionary tale warning boys against being cruel to their lovers.

I Facebook. Does that mean I'm a narcissist?