Narcissism 1

Shallow = peu profond, superficiel

1. Answer the following questions.

1. What opinion does Anja Taylor have of Facebook?

Being shallow, superficial

2. How do people act even when not in front of their PCs?

They project a perfect social life

3. How do you create who you are now? What’s the difference from before?
People don't know who whe are really are

4. What do the platforms mentioned aim at

Twitter, Vimeo, Blogs, MySpace, Youtube ...

5. What type of behaviors among youg people are increasing?

Plastic surgery, ...

6. What is “The Narcissism Personality Inventory”?

narcissic trail of people

7. What did Pr Twenge conducted in colleges?

It's increase, excessive form

8. What results did she get?

Excessive form : arrogant, ...

9. What are the symptoms of the “narcissistic personality disorder”

10. What other word is used to speak about narcissism?

11. What type of problem do you face when you suffer from narcissism?

Toxic to relationship to others, selfish, overconfident

12. What eventually happens to them?

2. True or false? Justify.

1. Facebook is the first search engine of the net. T F

2. Face book is main culprit of this phenomenon. T F

3. Pr Jean Twenge thinks this phenomenon isn’t that bad. T F

4. American youngsters suffer from a new disease. T F

5. There’s a link between narcissism and obesity. T F

6. Narcissism plays on blood pressure. T F

3. Fill in the blanks

Oh, that photo is so ____________. Need a new one, for sure. Bit of ____________, not too much make-
up, don't wanna look too ____________. Ready for the photos.
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Ew! Oh, my God, Anne, you are a ____________.
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That's the ____________ ____________. You look so ____________.
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So today, we are going to talk about my Louis Vuitton bag.
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I'm ____________ this bright-pink ____________. I don't know if it does look nice on me or not.
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A lot of people might not think that I ____________ as much as I have...
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It's the morning and I'm just gonna have ____________, so I decided to ____________ do a video of my
____________ breakfast.