Christine Rosen's "Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism"

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most importantly, social standing" (1). This informs her audience that social networking sites are a mere step ahead in social technology from the past, allowing individuals to represent themselves they want to viewed as. This has been happening for centuries, yet technology has made it even easier for more individuals to alter their image. Rosen also demonstrates how making these `self-portraits' are different from past centuries and today. "Today, our self-portraits are democratic and digital; they are crafted from pixels rather than paints. On social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook, our modern self-portraits feature background music, carefully manipulated photographs, stream-of-consciousness musings, and lists of our hobbies and friends" (3). This connects her audience with what society is doing today, while implementing the fact that technology is making it easier to portray our image the way we feel it should be looked upon as. Rosen provides this historical ...

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