Narcissism

I cam across this made up diagram the other day…

…and I thought it was almost too perfect (you can get the t-shirt here).  Of those sites listed in the overlaps of the circles, I have really only used facebook with any regularity.  I do have a twitter account as well as a myspace account but I only recently created them and spent only a day or two trying out the sites.  I have never used foursquare and don’t know much about it.  Of the 4 marked overlap areas, I wonder where blogging fits in best?  It is definitely in the narcissism area.  According to the wikipedia article, “Narcissism is the personality trait of egotism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness.”  Since I don’t think blogging involves stalking that would lead me to think about ADHD and taking over the orange space occupied by myspace in the diagram.  The question is, am I OK with this?

I enjoy blogging, it is very therapeutic.  But, is that the only reason that I do it?  Do I have a need for others to value my words, my thoughts?  If I am honest with myself, I would have to answer, “Yes!”  In fact, I only joined facebook after I saw that xanga (my long time blog site host) added a link to post your blog to your facebook account.  I only wanted to drum up visits to my blog.  And, it worked!  I probably tripled the visitors.  In my 2 month absence from blogging, I also disabled my facebook account and have yet to re-enable it.  My wife and son are on facebook daily (multiple times daily actually) and I don’t miss the feeling of needing to keep up or feign caring about my 200 friends daily goings on (I am trying to be honest here).  Only a few people have mentioned my not being on their walls so my 200 friends have found a way to fill the void that I left.

Faithful reader, thank you for reading.  Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day.  Thank you for spending a few moments with me instead of some other person’s wall or blog.  I hope my blogging does not come off as narcissistic.  I secretly hope though that it is not due to narcissism or ADHD (or both) that I blog.

Jon