(1.) Self-esteem is defined by Merriam- Webster dictionary as confidence and satisfaction of oneself (“Self-esteem”). An individual’s society and family influences his or her self-esteem levels. One of the powerful influences of society is social media. An individual can post a negative comment about another individual without face-to-face conversation. Also, individuals base how attractive he or she is by how many likes he or she gets on a social media post. For example, if an individual gets hundreds of likes on a post, she or he will think that they are attractive to others so his or her self-esteem will go up (Perez). If an individual’s self esteem is high, he or she is more likely to be self-confident, powerful, outgoing, …show more content…
Every day we have hear all types of negative comments like “he is not athletic,” “she looks disgusting,” or “I look fat.” Society constantly is downgrading one another in order to make an individual feel better. For example, society uses social media to play an influence in the effects of low or high self-esteem. If an individual gets hundreds of likes on a social media, he or she thinks that they are attractive (Perez). Society expects you to fit in this perfect norm they created. Society’s norm is an unrealistic persona that individuals strive to be like. Individuals are expected to be skinny but not too skinny, tall but not too tall, beautiful, smart, outgoing, and overall perfect. The inability to fit this perfect norm leads to a low self-esteem in individuals. The levels of self-esteem influence an individual’s behavior in all stages of life but the early stages of life are most noticeable to the effects of self-esteem. Children with low self-esteem are more likely to be conservative and shy. Like children, adolescents with low self-esteem are more likely to be shy, timid and get into drugs and/or sexually behavior. Adolescents with high self-esteem are more likely to be outgoing, more involved in school activities. In today’s society, men and women’s levels of self-esteem are being influenced by today’s society in negative