“1st Sext Virgo: My kink is an Excel spreadsheet of your problems Sagittarius: [pic of poem they wrote crying at the beach]”— Astro Poets, twitter.com
“In order to understand how and exactly why narcissists use these platforms for such petty power plays, it’s essential that we remember that they tend to be insatiable in their attention-seeking and their desire to create harems of people who adore them.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Social media is a veritable playground for malignant narcissists. It gives them easy access to multiple victims and the ability to manufacture love triangles in covert, insidious ways.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Research reveals that online trolls possess the Dark Tetrad traits of narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. In other words, online narcissists take sadistic pleasure in provoking others. So it’s no wonder that many narcissists in cyberspace are the types who hand out death and rape threats a…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Yet for a malignant narcissist, this behavior goes beyond self-absorbed selfies; it ventures onto a complete lack of self-awareness and empathy for others. Not everyone with numerous photos and thousands of friends will meet the criteria for full-fledged narcissism nor should these be the sole indic…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“But maybe a face that needs holding. Or some laundry that needs folding, like that other night when I faced you, pulled your shirt over your arms and heard you say, everyone deserves this. And I didn’t know if you meant a shirt or arms or just someone to pull it off of you. Someone to touch your fre…”— Kimberly Grey, narrativemagazine.com
“Smartphones have been around, in their current form, for about 10 years. Humankind is 200,000 years old,” Greenfield says. “Is it possible that we’ve distorted how important this technology is to our lives?”— Jamie Ducharme, Dr. David Greenfield, fortune.com