Social Psychology Of Selfie Analysis

After reading into "Social Psychology of the Selfie" I summarized that a "selfie", is simply a self portrait of oneself. How a person decides to share a photo that they took and broadcast it on social media sites like (Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr) can somehow want to seek approval of other users. Social media can play a big part in a person 's self esteem and self confidence. It can either boost them or degrade it down. It can boost a person 's self esteem by another user commenting positive comments or liking their "selfie". It can degrade their self esteem if a another user was too comment negative comments about their photo that that person took. In taking "selfies" in my opinion, it takes a lot of confidence for a person to post it. A person …show more content…
This website that was created was different from the present ones that was in year 2006. It allowed people locally to connect with one another online and see their life being broadcasted on what they chose to show. People could post pictures and statuses, set their relationship status, their likes and dislikes, favorite food and tv shows and etc. The thing about it was that you had to go on who you wanted too see specifically and go to there page. However, Mark Zuckerberg then created a news feed which allowed a person too see every one of their friends updates about themselves on one single continuous page. Nothing was controlled of how a person wanted what shared and what seen by fellow users. Constant complaints from users demanded Zuckerberg to provide privacy options so they could control what they wanted shared. Another social network founded in the same year as Facebook, was a social network called "Twitter". The difference between this and Facebook was there was no friend option. It was something called "Followers". Another difference between this and Facebook was people from all over the world could connect with a person and follow them rather than requesting to add them as friend. Twitter didn 't allow a option for a person to update their relationship status, theirs likes and dislikes like Facebook did. Twitter allows a user to post statuses about whatever they want too. The similarity between this and Facebook is everything you see is all on one continuous page. People could also post pictures of theirself on it, but who viewed it made the difference. A person may post a picture of their family on Facebook simply because there is people that they have added and know locally. However, a person may not post it on Twitter because there are strangers they don 't know that follow them. Although they could block them, it wouldn 't really