Yes, and Instagram is at the forefront of perpetuating this...[1]<p>Source: <a href="https://lendedu.com/blog/millennials-instagram-narcissistic-social-media-platform/" rel="nofollow">https://lendedu.com/blog/millennials-instagram-narcissistic-...</a><p>See the chart comparing narcissism on various social platforms.... The 'Gram is waaay ahead.
I'm sorry, but I can't take such a study seriously when it's using data collected from East Germany pre fall of Communism, when it had one of if not the most intrusive surveillance societies in human history. There's simply too great a possibility that the fear of study participants would have altered their responses to avoid reprisal.<p>To a lesser extent, I'd cast a skeptical glance on this kind of data any society with collectivist pressures until presented with a very high standard of evidence that the participants were convincingly guaranteed their responses were untraceably dissociated from their regular lives.