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Fox News’ Keith Ablow down on social media, reality TV

Jan. 9, 2013 3:11pm Eddie Scarry

When Dr. Keith Ablow talks, we listen.

Using a new study that showed this generation of college students to be exceptionally narcissistic as a platform, Fox News’ resident psychiatrist pointed his finger social media and reality TV.

From Ablow’s latest FoxNews.com column:

On Facebook, young people can fool themselves into thinking they have hundreds or thousands of “friends.” They can delete unflattering comments. They can block anyone who disagrees with them or pokes holes in their inflated self-esteem. They can choose to show the world only flattering, sexy or funny photographs of themselves (dozens of albums full, by the way), “speak” in pithy short posts and publicly connect to movie stars and professional athletes and musicians they “like.”

Using Twitter, young people can pretend they are worth “following,” as though they have real-life fans, when all that is really happening is the mutual fanning of false love and false fame. …

On MTV and other networks, young people can see lives just like theirs portrayed on reality TV shows fueled by such incredible self-involvement and self-love that any of the “real-life” characters should really be in psychotherapy to have any chance at anything like a normal life.

These are the psychological drugs of the 21st Century and they are getting our sons and daughters very sick, indeed.

He’s so right; Facebook users really do only show the sexy photos of themselves.

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Comments (6)

dcgirl
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:29pm
Absolutely. Now everybody “wins” because they need self-esteem. The only true positive self-esteem is that earned by hard work or true excellence.

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noslave
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:36am
like the old saying”YOUR A LEDGEND IN YOUR OWN MIND?” kids nowdays use avatars,self promoting ego boosters?anything that avoids reality/failures?some parents are at fault creating “little lord fauntleroys” coddling and your SPECIAL CRAP WHEN THEIR IDIOTS?,teachers are also at fault when the kid screws up the teacher teaches its everybody elses fault no the kids stupidity??so when the kids P.O. at the world he holes up in his room playing “CALL TO DUTY?,ETC.as a way to avoid reality??this also creates sick loners that act out eventually??

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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 3:01am
Spot on!

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Wisdom7
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:03am
One can make light of his warning, but I agree with him. He should have also mentioned YouTube.

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SerikFox
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 5:52pm
I would put considerably more emphasis on the effects of getting addicted to texting, and to your phone in general.

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Samsss
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 5:36pm
Dr. Ablow is exactly right. I only wish that his article were longer as he has hit on some extremely good points about where our young people (and hence, our nation) are headed as a “society”, Even a “self-loathing loser and complete social-failure” can make him/herself feel good with most of our social network possibilities. The much overused term in public advertisements and more importantly, private conversations, such as: – “The “great stuff” (insert your own ideas here) YOU deserve – - ” or – “Give yourself the “treat” (etc) you are “ENTITLED to” are so detrimental to our young and they haven’t a clue! I have no doubt that such feelings abounded in the general public German population (and for that matter, the Jewish “ghettos” of the pre-World War era – and maybe the rest of the then affluent world) and look what that came to. If we got what we truly “deserved” we would come off as being a most pitiable generation indeed. Sometimes, I think that maybe we would be better off as a”loin-cloth wearing, tent dwelling, sheep herding group of nomads were we to worship God in the manner prescribed in HIs Gospel than to dwell in our modern cities and live lives of affluence as we do. As certainly as we “came from nothing” we shall return to the same – and our eternal souls should be our only real concern. God help us for we seem unable to do so ourselves.

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