From Selfie to Self-Absorbed: How Social Media Can Mislead Us

There's an alarming rate of self-promotion, narcissism, and deep-rooted desire for validation through social media. The self-proclaimed novice "physique competitors" and "women empowering coaches" and "lifestyle consultants" seem to unknowingly promote narcissism and false positives of the human body. And the millions of millennials and those even younger have distorted the way we perceive our own bodies by promoting these misleading posts. For men, it's the selfies and the self-promotion of their body attempting to demonstrate their hard work, usually accompanied by cliche hashtags such as #fit4life or #gohard or #noexcuses. Sometimes it's a late Sunday night post attempting to boast their magnificence with an image of their flexing body in front of a mirror at the gym. The caption underneath it somehow alludes to a quasi-motivational speech to a rant about how lazy people are who don't workout late on Sunday night. Apparently exercising very late when nobody else does is the secret to achieving such physique. Other times it's shirtless posts showing us how superficial one can truly be. Sadly this ADHD-plagued generation cannot see the obvious. There's nothing wrong with a late night workout. Nor is there anything wrong with telling somebody to exercise at night. What's fundamentally wrong here is the notion that we feel we need to broadcast this piece of news to the world in a lousy method of attempting to bring dire attention to oneself. That's called narcissism. What ab...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news