Outline+and+Facts

Homework

Go through the research we've gathered and come up with facts and points to support our argument. Also don't forget we are meeting up on Friday at 10am same place.

__**Problems – Self-esteem**__  - Higher in narcissism and lower self esteem __**Intro**__ - Self esteem before social networking

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//**Self-esteem has become a very important issue through childhood and into adulthood. It is the importance of placing good values, feelings, and a positive outlook on our selves (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2011). In order to help develop a good self-esteem at a young age it is important for both adults and children to share good relationships, positive experiences and thinking (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2011). Parents and adult role models play a key part in shaping a healthy self-esteem by giving them unconditional love, showing a sense of worthiness, and encouraging positive behavior (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2011). **//======

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//** However, with the rise of the internet and social networking sites, more people especially children and teens are seeking their “facebook friends” and “blogging queens” for approval and self worth, thus affecting their self-esteem. A healthy self-esteem requires one to have “a healthy view of yourself,” but if facebook comments are negative, how can one have a healthy view of themselves? (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2011). A healthy self-esteem requires having “a quiet sense of self-worth,” but if everyone, including “friends of friends” can see your social life, how quiet can it really be? (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2011). Being able to have “ a positive outlook” is also very necessary for a healthy self-esteem, but if online friends put each other down, does a positive outlook even exist? (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2011). In addition, being able to feel satisfied with yourself also diminishes if your “friends” don’t agree with what you post to promote yourself online (Canadian Mental Health Association, 2011). **//======

- Social networking how it’s been growing and creating more of an impact

 The aim of our study was to investigate the consequences of friend networking sites such as Facebook. Social networking sites provide a wide variety of services for users, such as their own unique "space," as well as enabling them to share photos and videos, maintain blogs, and encourage group interactions. Valkenburg, Peter, and Schouten (2006) exposed that the rate with which adolescents use the sites influences their social self-esteem and well-being. The use of the friend networking site stimulated the number of relationships formed on the site, the frequency with which adolescents received feedback on their profiles, and the tone (positive vs. negative) of this feedback. Positive feedback on the profiles enhanced adolescents’ social self-esteem and well-being, whereas negative feedback decreased their self-esteem and well-being.

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- Something about facebook – extent of social networking (why? How?) - Problems about how social networking is affecting self esteem __**Research Methods**__ - Survey - Sent our survey through facebook - Interviews - - Research gathered from articles to support our problems - __**Discussion**__ - Our experiences  - Results from surveys

__**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> Conclusion **__

Research-

<span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A new study of Canadian university students suggests Facebook is a magnet for narcissists and people with low self-esteem. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Participants who were deemed narcissistic, and others shown to have low self-esteem, spent more time on the massively popular social-networking website, the York University research found. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Researcher Soraya Mehdizadeh also found that these people use Facebook as a means of self-promotion. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mehdizadeh admits the sample group of just 100 participants from such a specific demographic doesn't necessarily reflect everybody who uses Facebook. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But she expects the findings to prompt the site's users, who number roughly 16 million in Canada, to take a closer look at themselves — and their Facebook “friends.” <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I think people get sort of defensive about it, like: ‘I don't use my Facebook for that reason' — because it's a label that you don't want to be slapped with,” she said Tuesday in an interview. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I don't know if self-fulfilling prophecy is the word, but it's sort of like you've been believing it at the back of your head. . . and it's like, ‘I knew they were a narcissist.’ ” <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The surveys studied the online habits and personalities of 50 female and 50 male Facebook users between the ages of 18 and 25. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Participants, all York students, took psychological tests that measured their sense of self-esteem and assessed their levels of narcissism. Sections of their Facebook pages were also examined. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The study defined narcissism as a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and an exaggerated sense of self-importance. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Self-esteem was identified as a person's overall self-evaluation or their worth. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Students who scored lower on the self-esteem scale, as well as those rated higher on the narcissism test, were correlated with a greater number of Facebook checks per day and more time spent on it. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The surveys were conducted two years ago. The findings, published last month in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, also suggest differences between the men and women who use Facebook. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The women surveyed were more likely to self-promote through a carefully selected main photo that might offer a flashy, doctored or revealing image of their physical appearance. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Male participants promoted themselves more though written postings describing themselves in the “About Me” or “Notes” sections. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It's really interesting to look at the differences between the online self and the off-line self and to sort of bridge the gap between the two,” Mehdizadeh said of the research, part of her undergraduate thesis. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She painted Facebook as an ideal setting for narcissists who can monitor how many “friends” they have. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It can also serve as a “social lubricant” for those with low self-esteem, since it's so easy for them to connect with so many people. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For example, Facebook friends can boost the confidence of someone who doesn't feel good about their physical appearance by posting flattering comments on photos, she added. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“That's obviously something that might help someone deal with their low self-esteem,” said Mehdizadeh, who is now preparing for medical school. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“If (Facebook) would improve their self-esteem, what great benefits that would have to the health and well-being of people who use the site.” <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook said in July that it had 500 million users worldwide, up from the 250 million users it had the year before. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Canada eclipsed the 16-million users mark in May, according to research firm Inside Network. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Does this mean that everyone who spends more than three hours a day on Facebook is narcissitic or has low self-esteem? <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Maybe not,” Mehdizadeh says. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“But what this study does meaningfully achieve, in my opinion, is a contribution to the already existing literature.” <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Still, questions remain in a relatively new area of psychology, she added. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/1.5 Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Is it that narcissists are more likely to use Facebook, or people who use Facebook are more likely to become narcissists?”

Works Cited Canadian Mental Health Association. "Children and Self-Esteem." 2011. <@http://www.cmha.ca/bins/content_page.asp?cid=2-29-68>.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/personal-tech/facebook-a-big-hit-with-narcissists-study/article1698694/