The Effects Of Social Media On One's Perception Of Self-Worth Analysis
The Effects of Social Media on One’s Perception of Self-Worth
As the current social media climate continues to be all consuming, platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, are tantamount to our value, self-worth and self-esteem. It is amazing how social media plays a major role on the perception of one’s self-worth. Nowadays, it is more important to be scored on one’s social media than to maybe receive a high score on an exam. On the social platforms of like Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter and Facebook, you post to get “likes”, to get “retwitted” or get your “posts shared”. Even LinkedIn, which is a business social network, qualifies your online resume with likes and follows. All these platforms are ways in which we currently …show more content…
As of the first quarter of 2015, Facebook had 1.44 billion monthly active users. The microblogging service, Twitter, averaged 236 million monthly active users with an average of 500 million tweets sent out per day. The photo sharing application, Instagram, had 300 million monthly active users. These numbers are increasing at staggering rates and show strong signs of increasing quarter after quarter. With increasing users and usage on these social media platforms, it’s easy to believe that this is indicative of the amount of time spent on social media websites and applications. With every purchased iPad, tablet, laptop, smartphone, we gain a new inductee into the social media …show more content…
Low self-esteem is not inherited. There are always external causes of low self-esteem, which, if detected, can be rectified.
After a child is born, he/she starts receiving external stimuli of various types. Some of these are loving, caring, supporting and encouraging. But other stimuli are put-downers, outright insults, doubts, suspicions, and discouragement. It all depends on what a child receives more, and how he/she takes it. If there is an overload of negative stimuli then the child is sure to have a negative attitude and low self-esteem later in life. When a child is growing, if he/she receives too many criticisms with very little praise, then they may develop a negative pattern of thinking. Depending on the type of criticisms they are bombarded with, they may, consciously or unconsciously, say such statements to themselves: “I am not good enough.” “I am not pretty enough.” “I can never do that.” Constant repetition can only reinforce the negative beliefs – making a self-fulfilling prophecy, if you will. What was only a statement to begin with, soon becomes a core belief. The behaviour then changes to match that belief and a low self esteem person is
As the current social media climate continues to be all consuming, platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, are tantamount to our value, self-worth and self-esteem. It is amazing how social media plays a major role on the perception of one’s self-worth. Nowadays, it is more important to be scored on one’s social media than to maybe receive a high score on an exam. On the social platforms of like Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter and Facebook, you post to get “likes”, to get “retwitted” or get your “posts shared”. Even LinkedIn, which is a business social network, qualifies your online resume with likes and follows. All these platforms are ways in which we currently …show more content…
As of the first quarter of 2015, Facebook had 1.44 billion monthly active users. The microblogging service, Twitter, averaged 236 million monthly active users with an average of 500 million tweets sent out per day. The photo sharing application, Instagram, had 300 million monthly active users. These numbers are increasing at staggering rates and show strong signs of increasing quarter after quarter. With increasing users and usage on these social media platforms, it’s easy to believe that this is indicative of the amount of time spent on social media websites and applications. With every purchased iPad, tablet, laptop, smartphone, we gain a new inductee into the social media …show more content…
Low self-esteem is not inherited. There are always external causes of low self-esteem, which, if detected, can be rectified.
After a child is born, he/she starts receiving external stimuli of various types. Some of these are loving, caring, supporting and encouraging. But other stimuli are put-downers, outright insults, doubts, suspicions, and discouragement. It all depends on what a child receives more, and how he/she takes it. If there is an overload of negative stimuli then the child is sure to have a negative attitude and low self-esteem later in life. When a child is growing, if he/she receives too many criticisms with very little praise, then they may develop a negative pattern of thinking. Depending on the type of criticisms they are bombarded with, they may, consciously or unconsciously, say such statements to themselves: “I am not good enough.” “I am not pretty enough.” “I can never do that.” Constant repetition can only reinforce the negative beliefs – making a self-fulfilling prophecy, if you will. What was only a statement to begin with, soon becomes a core belief. The behaviour then changes to match that belief and a low self esteem person is