Why Narcissists Delete Social Media and Reinvent Themselves

Narcissists delete their social media accounts, abandon email addresses, and even shed entire aspects of their identities — not to manipulate you, but because they’re chasing the illusion of reinvention.

This isn’t about you at all. It’s about their endless struggle with themselves.

This is the thing people keep getting wrong about narcissists over and over again:

You keep thinking that you actually exist in narcworld — but you don’t.

You’re not a person to them. You’re an idea, a fleeting image they’ve projected onto you. When you’re idealized, they’re chasing a good fantasy; when you’re devalued, you’ve become a bad one.

Either way, your reality doesn’t matter in narcworld.

What does matter is their desperate need to escape their own emptiness, which drives them to shed the past like an old skin.

When the narcissist love bombs you, they create a good fantasy about you. When they devalue you, they create a bad fantasy about you. In both versions, you’re not real.

You’re an idea. Their idea of you has only the most superficial connection with who you really are.

Narcissists will delete their social media profiles, or simply create new ones —…