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Annotated Bibliography

Does Facebook cause depression and low self-esteem?

Morgan Harris Professor Malcolm Campbell English 1102 February 25, 2013

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Annotated Bibliography Lauren Suval. Facebook, Happiness and Self Esteem. Psychcentral.com. 05 Oct. 2012. Web. 24 Feb. 2013. This web article talks about the relation between having a Facebook and happiness. The author makes points that seem valid. Suval talks about how Facebook has become an integral part of our daily lives, and by seeing status updates about how much fun our friends are having, it in turn can depress us because we wish our lives are more like theirs. Because we tend to post positive things rather than negative things, constantly looking at our friends statuses can cause self esteem issues. Judging by the information in the article and the sources that were included, I believe that the information is valid. Psychcentral.com is a good website that always includes sources with their information.

Forest, Amanda L, and Joanne V Wood. "When Social Networking Is Not Working: Individuals With Low Self-Esteem Recognize But Do Not Reap The Benefits Of Self-Disclosure On Facebook." Psychological Science23.3 (2012): 295-302. MEDLINE. Web. 18 Feb. 2013 This is an article that I found on the schools library website that talks about how Facebook users who dont have friends outside of Facebook can benefit from having Facebook. Its interesting to see both sides of an argument, so that is why I included this source along with the others. In three different studies, the authors examined whether such users see Facebook as a safe and appealing place for letting their inner thoughts and emotions out. They found that although people with low self-esteem considered Facebook an appealing place to go ahead and let out those thoughts and emotions, the

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low positivity and high negativity of their disclosures created negative responses from other people.

Mehdizadeh, Soraya. "Self-Presentation 2.0: Narcissism And Self-Esteem On Facebook." Cyberpsychology, Behavior & Social Networking 13.4 (2010): 357-364. Academic Search Complete. Web. 18 Feb. 2013. This article I found on the library website discusses how online social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have revealed a new method of self-presentation. There was a study done that was discussed in the article that examined how narcissistic personalities are manifested on the social networking websites. Self-reports were collected from 100 Facebook users at York University and their web pages were coded based on the content features. The study revealed that individuals higher in narcissism and lower in self-esteem were online more often than the happier individuals. There are discussions about implications and future research directions of narcissism and selfesteem on social networking included in the text.

Nina Strochlic. Camp Kivus Quest to Get Depressed Teens to Disconnect From Social Media. TheDailyBeast.com. 05 November 2012. Web. 11 March 2013. This web article is the story of teens who go to a camp where they are not allowed on their cell phones until their term is over. It goes into how teens are so focused on Facebook likes and emails that they dont really understand real friendships. This article was very interesting to read and really makes you think about life from a different perspective. It puts emphasis on family and how the world today just doesnt focus on

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face to face interaction, but instead how we as a society are so much more focused on our cell phones and getting likes on our status. It is very impersonal and makes it even harder for teens to make it through high school as a self-aware person.

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