/lit/ - Literature

Is 4chan the most insecure, narcissistic, and neurotic place on the internet? Every board is about expressing your consumption patterns or some other traits in order to demonstrate superioty or virtue. Take /lit/ for example. There are countless threads tailored to doing exactly this, such as the handwriting threads, recent purchases, recently read, critique threads, etc. The same pattern holds true for all the other boards, it's just in a form related to the topic of that board.

I refuse to believe people are like this in real life. I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact most users here are young, teens or early 20s, and still haven't formed true personalities.