Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath?

[Nienna]

Unfortunately, you cannot just "spot a psycho". They have very convincing masks. They have studied normal people all through their lives and have learned how to mimic their facial expressions and emotions. The good psychopaths are very hard to spot.

There is also the fact that there are a lot of narcissistically wounded and ponerized individuals who act psychopathic but are not.

Have you read any of the threads here on psychopathy? There is a whole lot of information on this forum about it. We also have books that are recommended about psychopathy in our recommended books section.

And, lastly, how many people are going to even take the time to look up references of what a psychopath are in this day and age?

I have no issue with what psychopaths actually are, I'm well aware of such facts and the scenarios of their behavior. My reply was concerning the effect that articles like the OP have on regular people, and how unlikely it is for them to obtain a realistic view of what a psychopath is. I'd be repeating myself in any attempt to be more clear.

Incidentally - I've noticed that practically every reply to each post I have made here has been from a moderator or administrator, with the assumption that I haven't read anything, don't know anything about the subjects at hand, or am simply incompetent. Why is that?

Maybe I asked if you had read anything about psychopaths because of your post, which looks to me as if you have not. (And your statement that the mods assume that you haven't read anything, don't know anything, or are incompetent are rather over-the-top. No one has implied this, it is your self-importance that is doing that.)

The way your wrote about "spotting a psycho" made it look as if this is an easy thing to do, which would make it seem that you are not as familiar with psychopathy as you claim to be (which you did not say in your post). There are way too many people who think that it is easy to spot a psychopath once they have read only an outline of what a psychopath is. Pretty soon they think they are surrounded by psychopaths, when, in actuality, they are surrounded by people who have narcissistic programming from having to cope with all they have had to go through during their lives.

Just reading those definitions of psychopathy will not teach them all they need to know about psychopathy and how to "spot a psycho".

I felt this had to be made clear, not for you, but for anyone who read your post. Unfortunately, not everyone will understand it and will still try to "spot the psycho" from only those definitions.