Printed Photos Got Blamed for Narcissism Before Instagram.

They called it “photographic mania”, and it sounded just like today’s social media critiques.

Photograph by The Byron Company from The Museum of the City of New York.

If you post a selfie on Instagram, are you a narcissist? Today’s social scolds say yes. They believe that social media — and the many selfies that followed — created a rise in vanity. But more than 150 years…