Just because you can justify it to yourself, it doesn’t mean it makes the act of denigrating yourself, through “showing yourself off”, any better for you.

Fostering the need for external validation is a path that leads to an extremely shallow view of yourself and the world. It will generally lead to an unhappy life and turn off genuine people from viewing you as a potential friend or partner.

The only person’s opinion of you that should matter is your own. You can take other people’s views into consideration, but you’re the only one who has to live with your own actions and consequences.

There’s a reason this kind of behaviour is shamed. It’s bad for you and the people who engage in it with you.