Social media has
REDUCED
SELF-ESTEEM
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Self-esteem is
confidence in
ones own worth
or abilities – Oxford Dictionaries
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How does social media
Lower
Self-esteem?
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1.Social Comparison
2.Envy
3.Cyber Bullying
4.Criticism
5.Social Anxiety
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The Social Comparison theory states that we determine our own social and personal worth based on how we stack up against others. As a result, we are constantly making self and other evaluations across a variety of domains. – Psychology Today
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Social Media INCREASES social comparisons
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1. STATUS UPDATES
People feel worse about their place in life and their achievements if they’d just viewed their friends status updates – Society for Personality and Social Psychology
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2. Friend Count
People with lots of Facebook friends have lower SELF-
ESTEEM
– Society for Personality and Social Psychology
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Comments and likes on your Facebook profile picture strongly affect your level of perceived physical, social, and professional attractiveness
3. LIKES
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“Researchers call it FACEBOOK ENVY. It’s the act of viewing all your friends’ fabulous vacations, lovely children, attractive friends, and great social lives. – Brian Williams
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“When you go on Facebook it’s kind of like you’re going through everyone's pictures and everyone's life, like, oh, that looks like so much fun, oh they’re so cool, they’re so pretty, they have all these cool pictures” – Hannah Musgrove
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“Victims of CYBER BULLYING tend
to have lower self-esteem than non-victims”- Journal of School Health
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160,000 students a year skip
school just to avoid being
harassed,
social media is
making it easier than
ever to harass
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Today the chance of being scrutinized is greater
because more people interact through a
protected, anonymous filter
Potentially making
SELF-ESTEEM issues more sensitive
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SELF-ESTEEM is the core issue in social and performance anxiety
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“We have sacrificed
conversation for mere
connection” – Sherry Turke
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“We have sacrificed CONVERSATION for mere CONNECTION” – Sherry Turke
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“In today’s workplace, young people who have grown up fearing conversation show up on the job wearing earphones” - Sherry TurkeImage via, where_ever_i_am, morguefile
“Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I’d like to learn how to have a conversation” – 16 year old boy
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Without basic communication skills,
social anxiety intervenes and in turn,
lowers
SELF-ESTEEM
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Social media lowers SELF-ESTEEM by promoting SOCIAL COMPARISON, ENVY, CYBER BULLYING, CRITICISM, and SOCIAL ANXIETY
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References• http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/self-
esteem• http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/social-compariso
n-theory
• http://www.livescience.com/25972-facebook-status-updates-loneliness.html
• http://www.wbur.org/2013/02/20/facebook-perfection • http
://cyberbullying.us/blog/self-esteem-and-cyberbullying.html
• http://www.social-anxiety.com/area-self-esteem.html
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