social media addiction and self-esteem among adolescent

📄 Project Abstract

Communication occurs when at least two parties are interacting. Communication is the act of developing meaning among entities or groups through the use of sufficiently mutually understood signs, symbols, and semiotic conventions. In the present day, the most common way to communicate is on the internet or texting via any social media application. As humans, our need to be connected and interact with others is universal and unavoidable. Hidden behind this social instinct, there is even the more powerful necessity of giving sense and meaning to our world, being in touch with others allows us to create a social universe that is made of symbols - e.g., language, numbers, gestures, emoticons and social rules, which are shared and understood by everybody. People get a sense of social well-being whenever they are on a social media platform. It is as though they are interacting real-time and in real-life with somebody, such as friends. Researchers (Rosenste, 2016) have discovered that people w...