A new study shows that being obsessed with the online you -- Facebook, tagged pictures, status updates and hundreds, if not thousands of "friends" -- can really help build your self-esteem.
The study, conducted by Cornell University, consisted of 62 students who were left alone in the university's lab. Their computers were either turned on using the student's Facebook page or turned off. Some computers even had a mirror propped against the screen.
The students who had Facebook on their screen were given three minutes to obsess with their page and then were given a questionnaire to measure their self-esteem. Although the article does not describe the type of questions answered, I'm sure they were quantity-focused. Example: "How many tagged pictures do you have?"
I can see this being true for the younger Facebook users. This sounds SO MySpacey. Now that Facebook is big amongst high school students and younger teenagers, that time is typically measured by being accepted and popular. I can see this study also applying to Twitter as well, even with its limitations, because of the follower obsession.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/03/01/facebook.self.esteem/index.html?iref=allsearch
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