Social Media Affecting The Individual's Self-Esteem

Introduction Over the past decade more and more social networking sites have popped up such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Tinder just to name a few. With the increase of social media use it is important to investigate how it affects the individual’s self-esteem that are using it in order to improve the affects it in the future. Finding out how social media affects users self- esteem is important because a majority of people all around the world use it everyday, multiple times a day. Gangadharbatla states that among teens and young adults more than 55% of teens online use social networks and 48% of them visit social networking sites at least daily. Gangadharbatla later makes the point that despite these …show more content…
Exploring how social media affects ones self-esteem, extraversion, self-presentation, and wellbeing are a few reasons why it is important to answer the question of how is the rise of social media affecting the self-esteem of the …show more content…
Kramer and Winter (2008) state that it is logical “to assume that people with low self-esteem will be even more eager to engage in activities that are likely to raise self-esteem” (107). These activities may include putting great effort into designing their profiles and displaying large numbers of friends (Kramer & Winter, 2008). Another article that was weighing the positives and negatives of social media stated that females were more likely to report high positive self-esteem and greater overall social network use to communicate with peers (Barker, 2009). Another example of social media sites having a positive influence on one’s self-esteem in found in the article written by Gonzales and Hancock. Gonzales and Hancock also state that the social network site Facebook can enhance social self-esteem when users receive positive feedback from friends on one’s appearance, close relationships, and romantic