# GoodPiece Many need to read -- Are you a social media narcissist? If you constantly tweet & post selfies, you may have a problem. Time to ask yourself whether social media is about connecting with others -- or is it all about you?-- glo.msn/relationships/signs-youre-a-social-media-narcissist-9621.gallery Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google Plus, Vine … all great—just not all the time. In fact, researchers have found that our obsession with social media is becoming less about connecting with others and more about vanity, egocentricity and self-promotion. We spoke with Elliot Panek and Sara Konrath, lead researchers for a University of Michigan study linking social media and narcissism. Read on to find out if you—or someone you know—is a social media narcissist. -------- "In Washington I saw girls whose mothers were earning their living by laundrying. These girls were taught by their mothers, in rather a crude way it is true, the industry of laundrying. Later, these girls entered the public schools and remained there perhaps six or eight years. When the public school course was finally finished, they wanted more costly dresses, more costly hats and shoes. In a word, while their wants had been increased, their ability to supply their wants had not been increased in the same degree. On the other hand, their six or eight years of book education had weaned them away from the occupation of their mothers. The result of this was in too many cases that the girls went to the bad. I often thought how much wiser it would have been to give these girls the same amount of mental training - and I favour any kind of training, whether in the languages or mathematics, that gives strength and culture to the mind..." Booker T Washington Up from Slavery 1901
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