Social media and loneliness: Why an Instagram picture may be worth more than a thousand Twitter words

By Matthew Pittman, Brandon J. Reich. Computers in Human Behavior, 2016

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Unifying the detrimental and beneficial effects of social network site use on self-esteem: a systematic literature review (2019, background): “Indeed, extant research for instance discusses the role of higher social presence in picture-based SNSs (e.g., Instagram) in affecting users’ well-being (Pittman & Reich, 2016).”
Do Social Network Sites Enhance or Undermine Subjective Well‐Being? A Critical Review (2017, background): “For example, Tweeting (i.e., posting a short message) or uploading a picture could be considered active ways of using Twitter and Instagram, respectively.”
Exploring the credibility of online celebrities' Instagram profiles in influencing the purchase decisions of young female users (2017, background): “All rights reserved. endorsers and their influence on female users within the 18e30 age groups (Chua & Chang, 2016; Pittman & Reich, 2016).”
Fear of missing out (FoMO): A generational phenomenon or an individual difference? (2020, background): “Of the self-perception variables of interest, loneliness is perhaps most theoretically close to FoMO (Barry et al., 2017; Pittman & Reich, 2016).”
‘Instafamous’ – credibility and self-presentation of micro-celebrities on social media (2019, background): “Previous studies also highlighted the role of visual content in the initial perception of online sources, as photographs can quickly communicate emotions (Nielsen & Pernice, 2010; Pittman & Reich, 2016).”
Uses and Gratifications of Problematic Social Media Use Among University Students: a Simultaneous Examination of the Big Five of Personality Traits, Social Media Platforms, and Social Media Use Motives (2018, background): “Using image-based social media platforms involving sharing photos and videos makes interaction and communication more intimate and realistic (Pittman and Reich 2016).”
Priming social media and framing cause-related marketing to promote sustainable hotel choice (2020, background): “Compared to other social media platforms, image-based social media such as Instagram are more likely to evoke a certain emotion (Pittman & Reich, 2016).”
Social Comparison as the Thief of Joy: Emotional Consequences of Viewing Strangers’ Instagram Posts (2018, background): “Similarly, in a random sample of 3,800 Twitter users, posters who viewed relatively more positive tweets subsequently posted more positive tweets themselves, whereas posters who viewed more negative content posted more negative content themselves (Ferrara & Yang, 2015).”
The future of social media in marketing (2019, background): “These shifts have had demonstrable consequences on social media usage and its consequences as some scholars suggest that image-based posts convey greater social presence than text alone (e.g., Pittman and Reich 2016).”