Me, Me, Me

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B: Me, Me, Me By Anne Krogh, 2.F, English This is an essay by Sarfraz Manzoor entitled “Me, Me, Me”. The text is about Sarfraz Manzoor’s opinion of the phenomenon “New Narcissism”, and how the internet contributes to narcissism as we can see from this quotation, “Why did Chris Crocker feel the need to share his thoughts on Britney Spears with the rest of the world...And perhaps more importantly, why did more than 12 million people agree?” The web is a great place to seek your ambitions and hopes, in less than two minutes you can record your own singing, or any other talent, and post it on “YouTube”, and if you’re lucky millions of people will watch it, and perhaps they will press the “like” button. This exact same scenario happened to the Britney Spears fan, Chris Crocker. He posted a video of himself crying and screaming “Leave Britney alone!”, and that video was watched over 12 million times. It was quite a ridiculous video, but that little scene, got Crocker an agency contract and the status of a celebrity, and wasn’t that the whole point? Too become a celebrity. The writer Manzoor seems to think, that there are a lot of “media-whores”[1] on the web just waiting to get famous, owing to their lack of talent, “ For the main part, those auditions were classic narcissists: convinced that they deserve success despite their transparent lack of talent” In the working relationship between the web and narcissism the appearance matter. For example Manzoor mentions the Danish website “Beautifulpeople.net”, were only beautiful people are allowed. But who can decide what beauty is, and who has the right to judge others? That’s one of the biggest problems with our modern world, we live on the internet and somebody even uses it as a surrogate family, but what about our personality. Doesn’t the inner in us matter anymore? - it doesn’t on the web. Some websites are for
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