People with a desire for fame tend to post more often than those who are not focused on fame. A study of 221 undergraduate students from a large university in the Northeast was conducted to determine the relationship between watching reality TV, desire for fame, and the use of social media. The results reveal that the desire for fame was significantly associated with exhibitionism and exhibitionism was significantly associated with photo posting and status updating (Rui & Stefanone 2016). In this research exhibitionism refers to behaviors aimed at showing off.
