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    • Posts: 90 Member
      I take one "selfie" every Friday and I post a before and after at each month mile stone I reach..... I do it because I'm proud of myself for achieving those goals not because of what others will think lol
    • Posts: 8,680 Member
      So one cannot be proud of what they accomplish? Do you not frame your college degrees if you have any? Same goes for gym selfies. You work hard for what stares back at you in the mirror

    • Posts: 70 Member
      It's not saying it's wrong to post gym selfies, the Brunel University study simply states people who do post gym selfies tend to be narcissists and their narcissism is fueled by the "Likes" or positive feedback. It's to boost their ego, whether it's right or wrong is irrelevant.
    • Posts: 8,680 Member
      nick40ghs wrote: »
      It's not saying it's wrong to post gym selfies, the Brunel University study simply states people who do post gym selfies tend to be narcissists and their narcissism is fueled by the "Likes" or positive feedback. It's to boost their ego, whether it's right or wrong is irrelevant.

      I can see that for the people who constantly take gym photos and I mean like everyday with a check up to said gym. There are people like that.
    • Posts: 90 Member
      When people have a baby they post a picture, get married post a picture, graduate post a picture would these pictures also fall under narcissism, I think any period in your life you are happy/proud and feeling accomplished you should be allowed to share without being labelled
    • Posts: 4,590 Member
      I have posted I think two in my entire journey lol. one was to show how I looked once I hit goal so that I would have a reference point for any future figure changes. One was very un-narcissistic as I did not post flatteringly. I just handed husband the camera and lifted in my usual way (making horrible faces, covered in sweat) in order to make some of my friends feel better because THEY were looking at workout selfies online and feeling ugly. I said hold up, I'll post a REAL one and then you will feel better. I feel like I helped them out. :D
    • Posts: 2,286 Member
      nick40ghs wrote: »
      It's not saying it's wrong to post gym selfies, the Brunel University study simply states people who do post gym selfies tend to be narcissists and their narcissism is fueled by the "Likes" or positive feedback. It's to boost their ego, whether it's right or wrong is irrelevant.

      This goes for any selfies. The chick that can't drive to work without a car selfie. The dude that can't take a shower without the towel in the mirror selfie, etc
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    • Posts: 70 Member
      Let's pose another question:

      Should pride be kept to one's self and not posted to a complete public audience (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.), could that no longer be pride and reach vanity?
    • Posts: 8,680 Member
      nick40ghs wrote: »
      Let's pose another question:

      Should pride be kept to one's self and not posted to a complete public audience (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.), could that no longer be pride and reach vanity?

      That answer is up to the individual.
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    • Posts: 70 Member
      edited June 2015
      yopeeps025 wrote: »
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      That answer is up to the individual.

      Good point, this question ends subjectively. So better question:

      Why post a gym selfie for the Web to see publicly, if one is already proud of what they have accomplished?
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    • Posts: 249 Member
      edited June 2015
      I have an anonymous Instagram account on which I sometimes share post-workout selfies. I use my IG fitness account as sort of an illustrated supplement to MFP. There's a whole community of people on IG similar to MFP, with an added visual element.

      It may be a little narcissistic, but I think that a lot of the gym selfies I see on the fitness community of IG are all about fostering hard work and self care, much like MFP.
    • Posts: 70 Member
      BFDeal wrote: »
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      Yeah, at home or maybe in your office. Probably only if you're a doctor or a lawyer too. But you don't post pictures of your degree on social media every day to show how you still have a degree or talk about your degree constantly. If you did the implication would be you're going out of your way to rub it in peoples faces. And isn't all the "hard work I put in at the gym" for the individual? That's the thing people always say. "I do this for me. I don't do this for anyone else." Except the people your post the selfies for?

      Free pass for specifically related fitness site selfies. It's a fitness site. What do you expect?


      Interesting response, so could you conclude accomplishments are primarily meant for ones that matter to the individual? Typically these can be regarded as friends and family, and at a professional level it is used to display as a qualification, as opposed to anything beyond that such as social media sites or any other publicly viewed sector reaches a point of gaudy behavior, vanity, and narcissism?
    • Posts: 240 Member
      Nope, too busy working out to care about a photo!
    • Posts: 4,590 Member
      BFDeal wrote: »
      Of course. How else will people know I'm a douche?

      Oh my God I love this guy!!! <3:*
    • Posts: 1,572 Member
      LOL I guess the majority of the world is narcissistic because selfies are everywhere! Whether in the gym or not in the gym, someone is taking a selfie right at this very moment! Hmm, Okay got to go take a selfie! LOL
    • Posts: 4,334 Member
      Man, people who post gym selfies are so full of themselves :wink:
    • Posts: 70 Member
      marthaelisa80 wrote: »
      LOL I guess the majority of the world is narcissistic because selfies are everywhere! Whether in the gym or not in the gym, someone is taking a selfie right at this very moment! Hmm, Okay got to go take a selfie! LOL

      A very generalized statement I might add.

      At what point is a selfie 'a photo meant to show- off' and at what point is it simply just 'a photo'?
    • Posts: 70 Member
      Troutsy wrote: »
      Man, people who post gym selfies are so full of themselves :wink:

      Since it is arguable your profile picture is a 'gym selfie' would you say you are "so full of 'yourself'"?
    • Posts: 70 Member
      asflatasapancake wrote: »
      Yeah, selfies are the worst!

      Since it is arguable your profile picture is a 'gym selfie' would you say your picture is "the worst!"
    • Posts: 4,334 Member
      nick40ghs wrote: »
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      Since it is arguable your profile picture is a 'gym selfie' would you say you are "so full of 'yourself'"?

      I was being sarcastic...that was kind of the joke that my profile is a "gym selfie"
    • Posts: 1,572 Member

      nick40ghs wrote: »
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      A very generalized statement I might add.

      At what point is a selfie 'a photo meant to show- off' and at what point is it simply just 'a photo'?

      My point is, Does it really matter?
    • Posts: 7,739 Member
      Better question: who gives a flying F?
    • Posts: 70 Member
      Troutsy wrote: »
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      I was being sarcastic...that was kind of the joke that my profile is a "gym selfie"

      Ah! So including your sarcasm, are you implicitly saying you do not believe a gym selfie is 'narcissistic' as the Brunel University study says? If this is true, would you care to elaborate?
    • Posts: 4,334 Member
      nick40ghs wrote: »
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      Ah! So including your sarcasm, are you implicitly saying you do not believe a gym selfie is 'narcissistic' as the Brunel University study says? If this is true, would you care to elaborate?

      Am I narcissistic? No

      Am I proud of my achievements and how far I've come? Yes.
    • Posts: 603 Member
      I thought this would have some gym selfies.... :s disappointed.
    • Posts: 70 Member
      TR0berts wrote: »
      Better question: who gives a flying F?

      Someone who may have a psychological problem. If the study holds true, then the problem may need to be addressed with someone who has the condition. Luckily, medical experts are very likely to be on hand to help. So if anyone feels they may fall under the category of people described in this study, do not fret, help is available.
    • Posts: 70 Member
      nick40ghs wrote: »
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      Someone who may have a psychological problem. If the study holds true, then the problem may need to be addressed with someone who has the condition. Luckily, medical experts are very likely to be on hand to help. So if anyone feels they may fall under the category of people described in this study, do not fret, help is available.


      marthaelisa80 wrote: »
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      My point is, Does it really matter?

      Please see the post on "psychological problems"
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