Facebook and Its Effect on Self-Esteem

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Facebook is said to be the most popular social website where one can share and upload pictures, videos, message, chat, and many other features. In addition, Facebook is defined as a place where you create a public or semi-public profile within a system with the privacy of your choice. Profiles are unique pages where one can "type oneself into being." It's also of beneficial to communication because through it,one can connect with others through technology. Self-esteem is used to describe a person's overall sense of self-worth or personal value. Self-esteem is often seen as a personality trait, which means that it can be stable and enduring.

METHODS

A descriptive-correlational type of research method will be used in this study because the researchers would like to know whether Facebook is related to the Self-Esteem of Individuals. The researchers would also like to knowhow Facebook can be positively or negatively correlated to the self-esteem of individuals. A pencil or ball pen and paper survey questionnaire method will be used by the researchers for determining the effect of Facebook and its self-esteem to the students. The research instrument that will be used in the study will be Rosenberg self-esteem scale in order to measure the self-esteem of the respondents. It is a questionnaire that is Likert type of scale which contains ten items that deal with general feelings of people.

RESULTS

The results show that the duration of each following Facebook activity chatting and browsing is the most often Facebook activity of the 28 respondents. Updating status, uploading pictures and giving comments are the Facebook activities that the respondents are doing sometimes. And playing games are Facebook activity seldom done by the respondents. The level of self-esteem of the students based on the result is interpreted normally because according to the scoring of the questionnaire, scores between 15 and 25 are within the normal range. Normal self-esteem is more likely to have honest, open and appropriate communications with others because they believe their thoughts have value and are not afraid of clarity. Based on the Pearson Correlation coefficient, a low correlation was found, the obtained result was .305 at 0.05 levels which means that there is a low-level significance relationship between Facebook use and level of self-esteem.

DISCUSSIONS

After the data have been presented, analyzed and interpreted. The conclusion is formed that chatting and browsing is the most often Facebook activity and playing games is the most seldom done by the students. All of the respondents have normal range level of self-esteem and the researchers concluded that there is a low-level significance in the relationship between of Facebook use with its effect on the level of self –esteem.