Tyee has a great article by Sunny Freeman on the Millennial gernation’s search for celebrity on the web.  I prefer the vision of a circle of friends who connect and share "space," whether that space is my living room or virtual.  However that ideal can be quickly overrun by the consuming desire to be affirmed as signficant by the number of hits one gets or makes.  The formation of our soul and our personal identity is so personal and essential; the habitual prostituting of our identities on the web through many platforms is representative of that hunger to know and to be known.  Thus Freeman notes that we have a

A generation of narcissists?

But there’s a cost. A recent report entitled "Egos Inflating Over Time" released by five psychologists in the U.S. found that today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than any generation before them.

The researchers examined the responses of 16,475 college students in the U.S. who completed an evaluation called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. They found that students’ scores have risen steadily since 1982. By 2006, two-thirds of the students had above average scores, 30 per cent more than in 1982.

We will only find rest for our souls in God; and particularly when we can abandon the search for signficcance with satisfaction in just knowing Christ. 

I’m not there yet, but on The Way.