Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps
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...Self-Presentation In 1956, Erving Goffman published a landmark book titled The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life [37]....
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...To the degree that people spend more time on social media voyeuristically consuming information about others than viewing their own profiles [43,50,71] and are more sensitive to negative than positive experiences [72,73], this could explain why the overall effects of social media usage onwell-being tilt slightly in the negative direction....
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...psychology’s most foundational findings concerns our tendency to overweight negative (vs positive) information [72,73]....
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...A great deal of research and theory supports Goffman’s thesis: we spendmuch of our time trying to manage what others think of us [38,39]....
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...In the early 2000s, social media (see Glossary) proliferated and revolutionized the way the world communicates once again [3]....
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