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　　Using Facebook is the online NFL apparelequivalent of staring at yourself in the mirror, according tocheap nfl jerseys a study.
　
　　Those who spent more timenfl merchandise updating their profile on the social networking nfl merchandisesite were more likely to be narcissists, said steelers jerseysresearchers.saints jersey
　
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　　Researcher Soraya Mehdizadeh blackhawks jerseyfrom York University in Canada mlb jerseyasked 100 students, 50 male and 50 female, aged between 18 and 25 about their Facebook habits.mlb jerseys
　　
　　They all took psychology tests to measure their levels of narcissism, which the study defined as ‘a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and an baseball jerseyexaggerated sense of self-importance’.
　
　　Those who scored higher on the narcissism test checked their Facebook pages more often each day than those who did not.
　　
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　　The findings, published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour And Social Networking, also suggested that those with low self-esteem also checked their Facebook pages more regularly than normal.
　
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　　Miss Mehdizadeh admitted that not everyone would appreciate her findings.cardinals jersey

　　She said: ‘I think people get sort of defensive about it – like, “I don’t use my Facebook for that reason” – because it’s a label that you don’t want to be slapped with.’
　　
　　Facebook has more than 500 million users worldwide and is the world’s biggest social networking website, but it has been involved in a number of controversies.