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Selfies and self-esteem
The research focused mainly on the so-so "onlookers", which mainly monitor and view social media and are not active otherwise.
On the other hand, the publication or etc. "Fasting" in social media does not appear to be associated with low self-assessment or low satisfaction of life.
The interesting was that the more often people looked at their own or foreign selfies, the lower the self-esteem and the satisfaction of their own life.
"People usually post selfies when they're happy or just have fun. This facilitates the psychological process, which leads to the conclusion that your life is not as beautiful as their, based only on the examination and interpretation of these pictures. "
From this rule there is also an exception, found scientists.
Those who had a very strong desire to become popular had higher self-esteem and greater satisfaction than life when they watched more selfies.
Perhaps the reason for this was that the examination of selfies had better satisfied their inner need to be popular.