The effects of social media feedback to individuals with low self-esteem and their feelings

• Main Authors: Gonzales, Jonathan Renz M., Jose, Edmund Joshua E., Manuel, Marc Paulo A., Terrado, Juan Miguel Dan G.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Self-esteem in young adults; Self-esteem in adolescence; Social media
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/8780
• Institution: De La Salle University

The internet is a vast and powerful tool. Social media can serve as an outlet for people who want to express themselves through internet. An individual's self-esteem can be swayed by feedback, and social media acts as an avenue for that. The research focus on individuals with low self-esteem. The importance of study is to discover more about the correlation of the effects of social media feedback among college students with low self-esteem. Feedback on social media can be categorized as either positive or negative. The researchers believe that feedback can have a more complex role on the feelings of individuals with low elf-esteem especially when interpersonal relationship is factored in. This research is a descriptive qualitative research design that is detailed to look for the associations between variables. Participants with low self-esteem are to be interviewed about feedback they would get on social media. The types of social media feedback involved in the study are Facebook's like , sad , comment , and private messages as well as Twitter's quote retweets , replies and direct messages. The feedback received are categorized as either positive or negative feedback. The information gathered were analyzed through thematic and categorized into themes.