Extroverts are always on about how we don't talk face to face or even voice anymore. I was so happy when email became a thing, I was staring at my Apple in 1988, begging it to let me connect to the world in some other way, then, voila, modems, internet, aol, email. There are still phones and faces, go talk to other…

hahahaha, you are young and chained to your devices. I can miss weeks of updates and don't care. I already know nothing I say is necessary. Wait, was I gloating? That doesn't sound so great. I'm old.

Edit. I found the questions parents were asked about their children. They are not merely regarding parental bias about intelligence. It seems the media focused on that aspect of narcissism, excluding other types. Whether this was due to what the researchers said in the interviews or some other reason, dunno. Most…

Summing up the comments (including mine):

When will people (or just you) stop blaming the media for something 2 psychology professors clearly stated and defined. Read the NPR article. If you are a psychology professional and you disagree with them, I suggest you discuss in the journal in which they published. If you are citing anecdotal evidence, then…

You know what, I'm just so grateful these people exist, as long as they use their powers for good and not evil. Averageness (and below) is the norm in most entertainment and on the internet, and most places you go in life, that it can start to seem bleak for the human race. So, I don't mind being looked down on by…

I resent the label asshole. It seems like a tool that people less everything than me use to attack me when I am just being honest. We are all assholes, but the truly gifted assholes are the only ones slapped with that label.

I don't quite understand why the narcissism study focused only on intelligence as the thing parents overestimate about their children. I mean, haven't we all seen plenty of real world examples of kids goaded into thinking they are better than everyone because of athletic aptitude, money, religion, or race? If these…

I'd marry you. Except that I already got married, with no proposal, no ring, and no church or family. It was all sort if about him being able to fly on the cheap with me under my company's discount. Yeah, not big on ceremony.

you feel luckier than Jennifer in the video, I feel luckier than you, someone else feels luckiest of all. Shrug

nothing personal, just using your post as example of what I'd like to see change.

Not really, just using your example to provide my alternative to having pop the question moments. you do you, obv.

So why put all the power in his hands waiting for him to create an "romantic" moment? If you already decided, why make a ritual about it? The tradition is based on the woman really not having any say in the matter and being truly surprised someone is buying her. It may have once been a coup for women's rights that she…

Ok, but I feel luckier to have one with whom we gradually got closer and closer, someone brought up marriage, maybe? And we said yeah maybe for a while, then we got to Why not? together, asked each other if we were sure a lot, then wed quietly. Neither of us like surprises. Just honesty.

Yasssss! Death the the Grand Gesture (GG). I wrote this earlier about video proposals, and it definitely applies to this ridiculousness.

Someone does something, we all critique, some accept it, others fight it, the person is defending/arguing, it's all really messy.

Is this it?

That's the boat Mr. Krumble is in, and what kind of harpy would I be to tell him, he's just not good enough for me anymore, so I gotta go get some out there somewhere. Have fun with your pain! I mean maybe it works for them and all, but it's just too close to home, and just sitting here I can feel the emotional trauma…

Skeptical.