91亚色

Skip to main content Skip to local navigation

Faculty of Health student's Facebook study sparks international media attention and debate

Compelled to tell your 500 chums every time you can鈥檛 find your sunglasses? Want the world to know you look like Robert Pattison? Post new Photoshopped pictures every day? You, my friend, are narcissistic and insecure, wrote the Sept. 8.

The Star was only one of Toronto's papers to cover.

鈥淓verybody knows somebody like that,鈥 Mehdizadeh, a psychology student in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health, told the Star. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e updating their status every five minutes. They鈥檙e telling you what celebrity they look like. They鈥檙e posting pictures of themselves in a bikini.鈥

Her article was also covered in the , , , The Canadian Press online (via ) and . It was reported by Toronto鈥檚 680 NEWS, CFRB Radio, and radio stations in Calgary, Regina, Edmonton and Moncton.

On Sept.22, the study was covered in New 91亚色, NY's .

Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, with files courtesy of YFile鈥 91亚色鈥檚 daily e-bulletin.