Question

Describe the self-enhancement and self-verification motives for self-esteem. Evaluate the posts/pages you see through the lens of self-presentation. Discuss which motive (self-enhancement or self-verification) is most evident in the sites you viewed. Provide examples, but do not include identifying information (names, handles, gender, etc.). Discuss if you think these online portraits of people are accurate. Explain your position. Explain if the prevalence of being exposed to social factors on social media influences individual behavior and the development of the social self, include how it does or does not. Use social psychological terminology to explain your answer. Discuss the positive and negative aspects associated with social media sites.

Answer 1

Human beings behave according to the situations. The places they live in , surroundings and the prior experiences gave them the idea to behave in a more efficient way . Regarding social media self enhancement is most evident in the personalities rather than the self verification. Peoples take the help of social media to publicise themselves thus they have this things on the back of their mind that self enhancement is necessary. Self verification is the self judgement which takes place after the videos or the portraits being publised on the medias. On that time they start evaluating themselves by comparing the statements from the public , if any. Especially stars used this tool to judge themselves for the better performances in future. Being exposed to the social media,s there is an obvious changes in the behaviour in the personalities because peoples are more aware of the things that how their personalities or the speech have the effects on the public. Thus words they used generally are more polished and precised and neutral in nature to avoid any other bad impacts on their personalities.

Postive aspects of associated with the social medias are that easy and fast publicity which almost everybody wants and negative aspects is the vice versa of the situation that negative words or behaviour , if any also be publicised very fast . Further, social medias are mostly used by the younger generations , older generations though used it but not fully beleive in the artificial community thus being associated with these community may only make popular to those crowds.