2023-04-20
34 分钟Recently, I felt weird posting pictures of myself on Instagram, and I've never felt this feeling before.
For the last ten years of my life, I've been posting pictures of myself on the Internet nonstop.
Okay?
Nonstop.
And I've never thought anything of it.
Posting photos of ourselves online is a part of being human at this point.
It's become an instinct, almost, and it's so incredibly normal.
And I think most of us aren't even questioning why we do it, because it's just so normal.
And up until recently, I didn't question it either.
But the last few times I've gone to post a photo of myself on Instagram, I've felt weird.
I've felt like a narcissist, and it scared me a little bit.
I've been finding myself taking a pause before I post a picture of myself feeling almost uncertain of whether or not it's the right thing to do.
And this is bizarre to me because it just had never crossed my mind before.
It had always been such an automatic thing to do, especially for me as somebody who considers posting things on the Internet as a part of my job.
In a way, it's been weird for me to sort of question whether or not it's a narcissistic behavior.
And I'm somebody who has a tendency to overthink.
So part of me wonders if I'm overthinking the whole thing.
But part of me also thinks there's a chance that even though we've sort of normalized posting photos of ourselves, it's still actually a narcissistic kind of behavior.
And so today, I sort of want to figure out for myself, honestly whether or not posting photos of yourself online is narcissistic.
Now, I really want to be clear before we begin this conversation about what type of narcissism I'm discussing today, because there's a disorder that is narcissism.