The use of social media has become extremely high, and there is a possibility that it's not
coming to an end very soon. Many teens use social media as a tool of self-evaluation, and also
they compare themselves to other teens. These contributed to the rate of self-esteem among each
individual.
It’s quite clear that the internet has evolved and become the lifestyle of modern culture
which allows individuals who have computers in their homes, electronic devices such as mobile
phones which enables them to share everything that goes through them and even in their
neighbourhood .further more it changes the interaction rate in their standard ways. It also gives
people self-disclosure in society. Through these multiple events that have occurred, it has led to
the decline of self-esteem among teens in large numbers.
When it comes to comparisons, many teens compare themselves to others, and this
lowers and affects their self-esteem since they view people like the one who determine their
self-worth.Self-esteem is usually how an individual looks at his/her worth, and mostly it involves
emotional evaluation which is one of the most important indicators of the wellbeing of a person
.it can be looked as positive or negative since it's been seen from different angles of stages in life.
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It is easy to identify an individual with low self-esteem since they have and portray
behaviours of loners or introverts such they are not free to interact with other people, they are
shy when it comes to self-presentation and in the groups. Although there are certain situations
which usually happens and causes the people who are extrovert and talkative to experience low
self-esteem in a certain point of their life in general, teens need to accept themselves the way
they are since self-esteem has a significant impact in their own life furthermore social media is
the tool which most youths and teens used it so that they can get acceptance from the social
world.
Teens with low self-esteem try their best to do certain things which are quite different
from each other so that they can gain acceptance, most of the time they usually feel deficient
when they are exposed to people who they aren't familiar with. When it comes in viewing funny
and good looking pictures on social media can enable them to formulate them with attitude about
other people who in their perception are living their dream life compare to him/her whom he still
struggling with some issues which seem not working it's quite clear that the more time you are
spent in social media can lead an individual to experience stress and even have a low
self-esteem.
Moreover individual with low self-esteem tries as much as possible to engage themselves
with the use of different platform of media so that they can get satisfactory .in one of the studies
which were conducted by Igor panic in 2004 it shows that most teens who have content which
talks more about themselves usually use of their time online activities tend to experience self low
esteem. Most teens tend to increase the number of followers and friends, they send friend
request, and also they accept friend request from strangers, the like posting more often and even
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