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I had a high possibility of being narcissistic, nice.
Narcissistic personality disorder is characterized by self-centeredness. Like histrionic disorder, people with this disorder seek attention and praise. They exaggerate their achievements, expecting others to recongize them as being superior. They tend to be choosy about picking friends, since they believe that not just anyone is worthy of being their friend. Narcissists tend to make good first impressions, yet have difficulty maintaining long-lasting relationships. They are generally uninterested in the feelings of others and may take advantage of them.
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Tricky - Hell Is Around The Corner
Really poor Soundcloud thing because I only have an M4a version.
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The exam season is kicking off, and though I was little active before I’m now not going to be able to post lengthy pieces of meandering bullshit for a little while. Or I’ll berate myself. Any tasty tid-bits come my way they’ll come this way, like the ones I had the other day which I ironically forgot to post. Boo hoo.
I want to be in Rage Against The Machine or Queens of The Stone Age (o.n.o.).
Going to see an American Pie tomorrow with my gally.
Bye.
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Does Facebook make us lonely?
Of course, in the majority, Facebook and other social media increase loneliness in the user. Being 16, I find myself in the nostalgic situation of a divided childhood. I can remember walking to my friends’ houses and persuading them to ‘come out and play’, prior to the sudden explosion of first Bebo and Myspace, and then Facebook (among others). Almost instantly, I and my peers spent less time physically talking to each other and a lot more time leaving comments on each others’ walls. The trend has increased with the social networks’ popularity, with more time being spent alone gazing into the glow of a computer screen than into the face of a friend. This has opened up many doors, with (young people particularly) making more friends they can classify as ‘good’ friends than the older generation, whose relationships are far too cast iron by this stage, but the difference is slight. The number of Facebook friends you have, the less of them you actually know. You end up with a list of people you’ve perhaps met once and end up knowing a lot about them, but not them. This ratio, rather than increasing the connectivity of the evermore ‘popular’ internet users, alienates people who are left with hundreds of acquaintances and no friends to talk to. This lack of human contact breeds loneliness, as I myself have often seen. If I’m feeling witty, I’ve got 900+ friends listening to my every word. If I’m feeling down, I’ve got no shoulders to cry on because everyone’s too busy updating their status.
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Wrote a little something for The Guardian’s peoples’ panel feature… didn’t get published so i’ll share it with ya on here. It’s about whether Facebook makes you lonely.
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On a few faces, which were more relaxed, I thought I could detect a little sadness: but no, these people were neither sad nor gay: they were resting. Their wide-open, staring eyes passively reflected the sea and the sky. Soon they would go back home and drink a cup of tea all together around the dining-room table. For the moment they wanted to live as cheaply as possible, to economise on gestures, words, thoughts, to float along: they had only one day in which to smooth away their wrinkles, their crow’s-feet, the bitter lines made by their work during the week. Only one day. They could feel the minutes flowing between their fingers; would they have time to stock up enough youth to start afresh on Monday morning?
— Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea)
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by Mark Beaumont
It was almost exactly a decade before thedeath of Steve Jobs that I realised he was about to fundamentally change my life.
On a plane to LA, stacking the twenty CDs I might want to listen to on the journey onto my tiny, bent and broken…
