Facebook Narcissists, Tribal Marketing, & Beyonce

So I came across an interesting study on how Facebook relates to empathy and narcissism*. According to the article narcissism, aka "feelin' yourself a little too much", has risen 30% in the last 25 years- especially among college students.

Could this be caused by the increasing popularity of social networking sites encouraging a generation of "wait let me take an artsy photo of my food before I eat it so my online friends can see"? Who knows. But what we do know is that narcissists make great brand cheerleaders and I can tell you why...