The Impact of Instagram's Popularity on Society

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• Instagram is a multi-channel platform that is available on both desktop site and a mobile app. It cane in existence in 2010 and is one of the most recent social networking networks.
• Instagram founder were Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom launched on October 6, 2010, but Facebook purchased it in April 2012 for around $1 billion.
•  This photo-sharing software lets users create their own personal profiles, which may be made private and public, depending on the user's real time preferences. Users may upload photos and videos to their profiles, follow other users, and receive followers in return.
• Instagram has seen various changes over the years, including the addition of digital filters and a variety of editing tools to allow users to perfect their selfies,' as well as the usage of hashtags to allow users to participate in online trending topics.
•  Users can now utilize geotags to tag themselves in their present location. Users' Instagram accounts can be linked to other social media platforms, allowing them to share photographs from both. In 2012, Instagram introduced the Explore tab, which allowed users to browse a variety of Instagram's most-liked photographs and trending subjects. The Instagram stories feature, which was introduced in August 2016, lets users share live/camera roll photographs/videos/boomerangs with their followers on their profile; this feature expires after 24 hours.
•  According to Instagram's demographics, women make up 68 percent of overall users, with the remaining 32 percent of male users. According to Instagram's statistics, 90 percent of Instagram users are under the age of 35.
•  The First Section
•  This case study intends to investigate the negative impacts of the social media application Instagram on the mental health of its users. This part will effectively evaluate many texts in order to arrive at a conclusion at the end of this case study once the research issue has been fully addressed.
•  In one way or another, social media has impacted the lives of its users; many active users do not spend a day without checking their various social media profiles, contributing content, and examining the content of other users, whether or not they know them (or follow them.)
•  It might be claimed that social media has a good impact on the lives of its users; Instagram, for example, allows users to keep up with what their friends/family members and mutual connections are up to through photo/story updates. Furthermore, Instagram allows users to completely communicate with one another via comments, private messages, and the app's report feature. As D Safarova and Trofi menko emphasize in their 2017 text, this concept is further defined.
•  "Instagram is a social media network where users post photographs of their daily lives and interact with one another through written comments beneath the images. The benefit of this MediaType is that visual information may be communicated instantly. Females make up more than half of Instagram users, and they prefer to follow positive content shown in professional settings."
•  This text supports the assumption that the majority of both contents and Instagram users are positive, demonstrating a favorable attitude on the use of Instagram. Additionally, practically every celebrity has an Instagram account, allowing fans to follow their favorite celebs and stay up to date on what they are doing/wearing/where they are, allowing them to experience a feeling of intimacy with them. Users can follow social media celebrities,' who are Instagram renowned bloggers who provide daily updates about clothing, footwear, hair care, fitness, and recipes to their fans, furthering this idea of celebrity touch. This type of 'celebrity' is more relatable to many Instagram users because they promote affordable clothing/footwear brands and frequently share discount codes to help users save money, gaining these celebrities more 'Instagram fame' and self-promotion, and again, gaining more followers for the 'celebrity.'
•  According to a BBC mental health poll published online. This poll asked 1,500 people between the ages of 14 and 24 to rate social networking apps on body image, anxiety, and depression concerns. According to the survey, over 65 percent of users believe that social media apps, particularly Instagram and Facebook, have a detrimental impact on their self-confidence and self-image. This topic is further upon in a newspaper article included in the Asia News Monitor.
•  "At the American Psychological Association's (APA) 2011 Annual Convention, Rosen warned that frequent overuse of social media could lead to mental illnesses in young people, such as bipolar disorder, which was an alternate emotional state between mania and depression, with delusions and hallucinations as a symptom."
•  World: A researcher claims that children's excessive usage of social media may have a negative impact on their physical and mental health (2013), Bangkok.
•  This article goes into greater detail about the bad effects of social media on young people, detailing the different mental diseases that can be caused by using social media platforms.
•  Another article expands on this topic by discussing how Instagram can have a detrimental impact on its users.
•  "Among young adults, Instagram is a popular social networking site (SNS) with a focus on photo-sharing. SNS use has both beneficial and negative impacts, according to a previous study. Using a sample of Instagram users aged 18–30, we explored how individuals emotionally respond to imagined positive and negative Instagram feedback based on personality and self-presentation on Instagram."
•  This paper delves into the findings of a questionnaire created by the writers, which was originally designed for Facebook but was altered for Instagram. Positive and negative Instagram feedback scenarios were created to simulate situations experienced on Instagram; positive and negative affect clusters measured emotional reaction to the Instagram scenarios; the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire measured personality; the Self-Presentation on Facebook Questionnaire (adapted for Instagram) measured self-presentation on Instagram; positive and negative Instagram feedback scenarios were created to simulate situations experienced on Instagram; positive and negative affect clusters measured emotional reaction to the Instagram scenarios. The association between self-criticism and effective response to bad Instagram scenarios was mediated by false self-presentation, demonstrating the deleterious effects of deception on social media."
•  As the author notes, the theme of different personalities being affected in different ways by Instagram is perpetuated.
•  "Persons driven by interpersonal relatedness are more vulnerable to interpersonal feedback (e.g., being liked or rejected) and low self-esteem (Eurythermal, Tambor, & Downs, 1995), whereas self-critical individuals use SNSs to satisfy the demand for self-presentation (Mongrain & Zuroff, 1995)."
•  This clarifies how social networking platforms, particularly Instagram, can have a harmful impact on vulnerable users' mental health since the statement points out that some users feel bad about themselves if they aren't 'liked.'
•  Throughout Sheldon and Bryant's article, Motives for Using Instagram and Its Relationship to Narcissism, the authors discuss how some users may be fueled by their own narcissistic ways, posting to their 'imagined audience,' which the authors define as an audience that users believe will hold them in high regard when viewing profiles on Instagram.
•  "Narcissism is another element that could be linked to Instagram use." Narcissists prefer social networking sites, according to Bufford and Campbell (2008), because they "operate effectively in the setting of superficial connections and highly regulated surroundings, where they have perfect control over self-presentation."
•  Users are extremely cautious and apprehensive about who might be criticizing them for what they are publishing, which can have a bad impact on mental health, according to the study.
•  "In one of the few Instagram research, Marcus (2015) discovered that, compared to other SNS sites, Instagram is more ozone's personal identity rather than relational identity," continues the article. Marcus looked at the photographs that five people between the ages of 22 and 25 uploaded on Instagram and came to a conclusion that "Instagram exists for people to self-promote."