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Fame, Facebook, and Twitter: How Attitudes About Fame Predict

Frequency and Nature of Social Media Use
Dara N. Greenwood Vassar College
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After reviewing articles about feeling while using social networks and why people
are effected by social media I came to find an interesting article that involves Facebook
and how people use it. The research involves around 400 people taking a quick 20-minute
survey about fame and social media. After separating the surveys from gender and
ethnicity, they came about that the women feeling more self-conscious after the survey.
Questions about fame and social media were used in the survey. It also came about that
the researchers were measuring they social media use and their attitude towards it. For
example, the researchers used Facebook to see how the survey takers used the time they
had on the website to update a status or read articles. The researched showed that they
were lurking or just liking and/or commenting on photos or statuses.
When it came to social media behavior and the fame they saw in it, it resulted that
people had a positive behavior towards Facebook. They showed that they were into the
things that came up on their Facebook, like family photos or funny statuses. The thing
that surprised me was that the people were really into the advertising on the website.
This article really had me looking at social media and feelings towards it in a new
way. I came to this research looking for negative feedback and I came to see that people
are happy on social media.
The questions that I wonder on this research is that:
What age group where asked to take this survey?
How did these people not find the negative side of social media?

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Warning: social media may be bad for you: Facebook and Twitter are leaving people
feeling inadequate, jealous and ugly, says a new survey. But can a detox bring users out
of the digital doldrums? Katie Wright reports
http://search.proquest.com.mantis.csuchico.edu/docview/1552110701?accountid=10346
After looking at scholarly articles about social media feelings, I came upon a
article where the negatives are pointed out. This article points out the jealousy and angry
in social media networks like Twitter and Facebook. The research consists of 1,500 users
being asked how they feel about social media. More then half of the people say that they
feel inadequate about their life or achievements. Others say that they feel more jealousy
about their friends like when hey post something on Facebook about going out to eat or
even hanging out with friends. A small third of the people felt more loneliness when
facing their self-portrait; some said they felt unattractive or ugly. They even mentioned
saying that they wanted to quit social media for good but cant because they want to keep
up with friends or family.
Some people when asked the questions about social media felt more
amused and felt kind of good knowing how their friends are doing. That people dont let
social media get to them personally cause they say that people tend to lie to impress.
Question I thought about when looking at this research is:
Why are these people letting social media affecting them personally?
What age group are these people?
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How do people compare themselves with others on social network sites?: The case of
Facebook
http://www.sciencedirect.com.mantis.csuchico.edu/science/article/pii/S07475632130045
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After seeing research involving the positive and negative aspect of social media, I
came to an article that shows the differences of the male and female perspective. In a
research done in Michigan State University, 199 undergraduate college students in a
communication class where asked several of questions on an online survey. The
researchers used college students only because they use more of the social media apps
then adults and young children do. They used Facebook to detect all their behaviors and
how they use their peer reviews. Out of all the 199 students, only 8 did not use Facebook.
When asked what they do on Facebook and how they feel after, they said, its just more
of a distraction from homework and it helps me keep up with my family back home.
The questions that I have thought through are:
Why not compare adults to young adults when using Facebook?
Why not use young high school kids that use a lot of social media?
How did this research develop when asking the questions on the survey?
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Couples, the Internet, and Social Media
How American couples use digital technology to manage life, logistics, and emotional
intimacy within their relationships
BY AMANDA LENHART AND MAEVE DUGGAN
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/11/couples-the-internet-and-social-media/
During this research, 2,252 adults 18 & older were to take a survey on how often
they use social media in their everyday lives. The research shows that couples in
committed relationships or marriages use technology in big or little moments. For
example, some couple has separate emails, passwords, accounts, etc. While others share
accounts and passwords. This explains that 10% of internet users who are married have a
huge impact in their relationship while 17% say that there is no really big impact. When
it comes to having positive or negative use in the relationship, 74% of the users say it has
made a positive impact in the relationship.
Other 20% say that social media is ruining the relationship and 4% say that it has
the good side and bad side. 21% of people say that they feel more comfortable with their
partner via text message or being online reading each others statuses. When it has come
to arguments, 9% had a difficult time resolving the problem in person then via text
message.
Questions that I have towards this research are:
Why only people that are 18 & older told to take this survey?
What feelings did the people have before taking this survey?
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How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy
By Maria Konnikova
This research came up having the feelings of sadness and loneliness. University of
Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross new study says that people are making a Facebook
for these reasons. Kross and some of his helpers sent out text messages to 82 Ann
Arbor residents five times per day. The researchers wanted to know how much they
used Facebook, how worried and lonely they were, how many people they have talked
to or texted after receiving the first message they sent out. Kross eventually found out
that between the two first messages he sent out, they felt less happy. As he looked at the
data, he argues that Facebook made them unhappy.
Kross states that lonelier people werent more likely to go online to be social.
There is another research that says, users of Facebook do not differ in most personality
traits from nonusers of Facebook (Nathan Heller). Still in some way, the Internet still
had people excluded. One small experiment that Kross got out of this research is that
Facebook could even cause problems in relationships, by increasing jealousy and anger.
The questions that I developed when reading this research is:
What were the overall emotions that people felt?
What were some of the positives from this research?