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Anyone who has been a teenager, knows teenagers or has worked with them knows that adolescents already have a very heightened, and false, sense of self-importance. It's a natural and highly entertaining/annoying phase of one's development. However, the normal growth from this phase includes the toning down of one's raging ego, but our culture only fuels it to a greater capacity. MySpace is the pinnacle example, yet again.On MySpace (the mere title acting as a tip-off to its effects) any Jack or Jane has the ability to broadcast his or her entire life in pictures and diary entries to the whole world (as if we care) on a website that has 58 million users (most of which were made to sign up just to gain simple access). It's a rigged popularity contest. Users can send out APBs about a new, self-portrait-like picture (taken in the bathroom mirror of course), and they do. They do send out these bulletins so that perfect strangers from under any rock or public library pc can voyeuristically ogle young girls in sorry excuses for clothing. Water:Narcissus::MySpace:GenMe.This generation feels empowered because they can "make or break" a potential pop star's career with their uber important text message vote. More fuel.It's only natural that this and the younger generation is more narcissistic when the previous generation (the Boomers) all but removed every trace of God in the public square, or at least allowed for its removal. If there exists no greater, transcendant, extranatural Being in the cosmos, then it really is just us. We are the center of our universe. The secularization of society nearly lends itself to solipsism, when taken to the extreme. (See Shirley Maclaine. Scratch that. See Hollywood.)