光憑自拍的數量當然不能用來判斷虛榮程度高低,但這種自我推銷的社群媒體機器,影響力非常廣泛。卡戴珊三姊妹和詹娜兩姊妹的追蹤人數,加總起來有一億五千萬,有數百萬人每週觀賞他們的電視節目《與卡戴珊一家同行》(Keeping Up with the Kardashians),好密切追蹤她們一連串的攝影工作、購物行程,以及家庭爭端。這種社交媒體的流行,讓愈來愈多人能夠接受極端現象:人們把自己對外貌之美的講究推到極限。極度虛榮並不會直接導致自戀(見四十八頁),那只是形成自戀的七個因素之一,但大眾把虛榮當成正常社會現象而接受它,卻會讓自戀的情況惡化。
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