Essay On Narcissism

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Narcissism usually means inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. The most common description of a narcissist addresses the self-centered, self-absorbed nature of a person and the obsessive concern about appearances and positive self-regard. We throw the word around about people who have never met a mirror they didn’t like or who brag or embellish their personal successes and belittle or show disinterest to the achievements of others. This behavior born with human being, but in today's world, the term "narcissism" has come to mean a little more than its literal meaning. It is a disguise for a deep-seated sense of shame that people may not even realize are there. New technologies and people’s living atmosphere rise them …show more content…

People use selfies for releasing their desire of narcissism. It appears snapping the perfect photo has become more important than truly enjoying memorable moments in life; which could be the reason narcissism has risen with the popularity of social media. The search giant, which uses machine learning software to add labels to images uploaded to its Google Photos application, analyzed how many of those were selfies. More than 200 million people upload images to the application each month. A staggering 24 billion selfies were uploaded to Google's Photos application in the past year. A blog post by Google Blog the author said, “A year ago, we introduced Google Photos with one mission – to be a home for all your photos and videos organized and brought to life so that you can share and save what matters.” “You've collectively freed up 13.7 petabytes of storage on your devices – it would take 424 years to swipe through that many photos.” “We've also applied two trillion labels, and 24 billion of those have been for selfies.” Yet this is only likely to be a fraction of the true number of self-portraits snapped by smartphone users in 2015 – Google only counted images uploaded to its Photos app. It will not include selfies kept on Apple's iCloud, posted to Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and …show more content…

Korea became famous in the world because people in this country have so many very advanced cosmetic technologies and they “created” so many beautiful faces. The dramatic rise in cosmetic surgery is part of the same effect; the celebrity fixates on his or her appearance to meet the demands of fame. Then the vanity, being the only truly replicable trait, becomes the thing to emulate. Ordinary people start having treatments that only intense scrutiny would warrant. New data released by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) show continued growth in cosmetic procedures over the last year, and a shift in the types of procedures patients have chosen since the start of the new millennium. According to the annual plastic surgery procedural statistics, there were 15.9 million surgical and minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures performed in the United States in 2015, a 2 percent increase over

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