1. Social media has REDUCED
SELF-ESTEEM
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2. Self-esteem is
confidence in ones
own worth or
abilities
– Oxford Dictionaries
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3. How does social media
Lower
Self-esteem?
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4. 1. Social Comparison
1.Envy
1.Cyber Bullying
1.Criticism
1.Social Anxiety
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5. 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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6. Social Media INCREASES
social comparisons
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7. 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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8. 2. Friend Count
People with lots of Facebook friends
have lower SELF-ESTEEM– Society for Personality and Social Psychology
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9. 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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10. “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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11. “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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12. “Victims of
CYBER
BULLYING tend
to have lower
self-esteem
than non-victims”
- Journal of School Health
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13. 160,000
students a
year skip
school just to
avoid being
harassed,
social
media is
making it
easier than
ever to
harass
classmates
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14. 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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15. SELF-ESTEEM
is the core
issue in social
and
performance
anxiety
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16. “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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17. “In today’s
workplace,
young
people who
have grown
up fearing
conversati
on show up
on the job
wearing
earphones”
- Sherry Turke
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18. “Someday, someday, but certainly not
now, I’d like to learn how to have
a conversation” – 16 year old boy
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19. Without basic
communication skills, social
anxiety intervenes and in
turn, lowers
SELF-ESTEEM
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20. Social media lowers SELF-ESTEEM
by promoting SOCIAL
COMPARISON, ENVY, CYBER
BULLYING, CRITICISM, and
SOCIAL ANXIETY
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21. References
• http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/self-
esteem
• http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/social-
comparison-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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