Does social media feed on ego or create ego?

[My oh Mike]

It seems like diligently placing our personalities into a medium would allow us to reflect on them in a way wherein we'd know ourselves better, being able to literally see ourselves interact with others basically through the eyes of a third party. You'd figure this would cause a more genuine response from ourselves, yet in doing so many of us in fact lose ourselves... People become fake, self indulgent, egos become inflated.... why? Does social media just exist in a way that it naturally creates ego or does it feed off ones already existing ego?

[Josh]

You get both sorts, I see people with 600+ friends and it seems like a status symbol to them, and others like myself I may have 2 or 3 friends and use it only for club events and games

[Shih Tzu]

Mike, I have watched reasonably normal people turn into megalomaniacs through social media. I don't get it. It's like they start believing all the (less than truthful) things they post. I know this one skinny little person who got a boob job and started posting all kinds of pictures of herself implying her new figure was the result of exercise and diet....like no one knew what she looked like before??? Others go on self-righteous rants because no one can interrupt them....like demigods. I think social network-atics all have narcissistic disorder. (Disclaimer: I know some people use it for what it was designed for.) And really, do we need to know what you are doing every moment of your life???
Excellent question.

[Philosophy 101]

The social media feeds on "socialistic journalism."
They are "egotistical."